Producer

Art Linson

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26 min: in total

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Fight Club

David Fincher · 1999

David Fincher's 1999 adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel follows an unnamed, insomniac office worker who starts an underground bare-knuckle club with a charismatic soap-maker, Tyler Durden, only for the club to grow into something far more dangerous. Edward Norton and Brad Pitt lead a film built around a structural twist Fincher fought to keep, on a 63 million dollar budget that returned a modest sum before turning, on home video, into one of the decade's defining cult titles.

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Heat

Michael Mann · 1995

Michael Mann's 1995 crime epic pairs Al Pacino's LAPD detective against Robert De Niro's professional thief across a Los Angeles built from real locations and a case Mann first wrote up as a 1989 television film. Its bank-heist shootout, drilled for months with a former SAS trainer, and the single diner scene bringing its two leads together for the first time on screen remain the reasons it is still watched, even at 171 unhurried minutes.