Fight Club/Pi DVD

Fight Club:

Brad Pitt (Seven, Snatch) and Edward Norton (American History X, Primal Fear) deliver knockout performance in this stunningly original, darkly comic film from David Fincher, the director of Seven.

Norton stars as Jack, a chronic insomniac desperate to escape his excruciatingly boring life. That's when he meets Tyler Durden (Pitt), a charismatic soap salesman with a twisted philosophy. Tyler believes self-improvement is for the weak - it's self-destruction that really makes life worth living. Before long, Jack and Tyler are beating each other to a pulp in a bar parking lot, a cathartic slugfest that delivers the ultimate high. To introduce other men to the simple joys of physical violence, Jack and Tyler form a secret Fight Club that becomes wildly successful. But there's a shocking surprise waiting for Jack that will change everything....

Pi:

Darren Aronofsky's award-winning directorial debut, is a science-fiction thriller about the haunting journey into the genius minds of a renegade visionary Maximillian Cohen (Sean Gullette).

A brilliant troubled man, Max is on the verge of the most important discovery of his life. For the past ten years he has been attempting to decode the numerical pattern beneath the ultimate system of ordered chaos - the stock market. As Max verges on a solution, chaos is swallowing the world around him. He is pursued by an aggressive Wall Street firm set on financial domination as well as a Kabbalah sect intent on unlocking the secrets behind their ancient holy texts. Max races to crack the code, hoping to defy the madness that looms before him. In succeeding, he uncovers a secret everyone is willing to kill for.

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