Fight Club (1999) [reclassified 2010]

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Synopsis

Drama. When a young professional’s (Edward Norton) home is destroyed, he moves into a dilapidated house with a man (Brad Pitt) whose unique perspective changes the course of his life.

Content elements

• Frequent use of the sexual expletive and variations, some in a sexual context; frequent use of scatological slang, cursing, profanity, and vulgar expressions
• Infrequent use of crude sexual language and references
• Pervasive hand-to-hand and gun violence – blood, audio effects, detail
• Frequent portrayals of injury – blood, tissue damage, detail
• One portrayal of a corpse – wound detail including tissue damage, blood
• One portrayal of and frequent references to sexual activity – breast and buttock nudity, some detail
• Infrequent portrayals of screen pornography – breast and male frontal nudity
• One reference to attempted suicide – some detail

Thematic elements

• Aligning values and behaviour
• Defining agency
• Aberrant psychology

Classification rationale

Rated 18A for pervasive brutal violence.

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