Parents guide

References to dildos

Noises are heard coming from the theater.

A brief splice picture of a penis is shown near the end. Not graphic.

A man wakes up to the loud noises of another man and woman vigorously having sex on the floor above him. Later on, after approaching their room, the man opens the door, completely naked except for a yellow rubber glove.

Condoms have been referenced to as well as shown.

At around 30 minutes in, Tyler is splicing reels of pornography into a family movie in a theater. We see a penis for about 3 seconds and bare breasts for another 3. Not graphic.

Around 39 minutes in, Tyler is riding a bike in a dark lit house and he falls off. Apparently he is naked and so we see his rear in the dark for a moment. You almost can't tell he's naked.

Around 48 minutes in, after Marla calls Narrator, we see her bare breasts for about 15 seconds or so.

Around 53:40, we hear loud moaning and creeping from an upstairs room. The ceiling below starts to lose some of its pieces. Narrator goes up to the room and Tyler opens the door and is wearing nothing but a yellow glove. This scene lasts till about 54:59.

At 55:40, we hear Tyler screaming/moaning loudly and loud thumping. Lasts about 30 seconds.

A man repeatedly punches another man, but the latter laughs psychotically with each punch. The man later jumps on the other man, continuing to laugh wildly while spraying and coughing up blood on him.

About 15 scenes of men involved in bare-fisted boxing matches: they punch each other in the face, ears and stomach and are sometimes thrown to the ground or against a wall; often they're surrounded by a group of cheering men. The participants in these fights nearly always have at least one very bloody facial cut or have blood on their clothing; we see many men with black eyes, bruised faces, bloody mouths and bandages on their faces.

A man's face is beaten to a bloody pulp. He struggles to breathe afterwards. This is extremely brutal and it's all shown in really close-up and slow-motion. Afterwards we later see that man with his mutilated face almost unrecognizable.

The Narrator has a fantasy of a midair collision where we see an airplane's cabin destroyed and people and seats being sucked out of what's left.

A group of men ambush a man whom a man beats to the ground, the men wear ski masks and hold him hostage, pulling down his pants and duct-taping his mouth shut. They threaten to castrate him and he passes out from shock.

Tyler kisses/licks the Narrator's hand (to make it wet) and then pours lye on it, creating a chemical burn as a test of strength and slaps him repeatedly as he screams and writhes in pain. The skin starts to blister really bad and partly melts away. This is pretty graphic and the camera lingers on the injury for a while.

A man shoots himself through the cheek. Lots of blood and smoke then gushes out from the wound and down his neck as he is seen thrashing. Another man is seen with a graphic and gory bullet hole on the back of his head and he collapses, dead.

An explosion sets free a large corporate logo ball that then crashes into a coffee shop. As the perpetrators run away, we see a cop shooting at them (and he hits one in the head -- the impact isn't seen, although we do see the gory aftermath). The dead body lays on a table, dead as he bleeds out from the back of his head. The top half of his head is missing and blood and brains spill out. Brief but very graphic.

To intimidate his boss, the Narrator starts punching and flailing himself across his boss' office (and breaking a glass coffee table and some shelving units with his body in the process). We see shards of glass puncture his arm/hand along with blood on his shirt. He then walks away.

Tyler Durden gets in a fight with another man. Eventually it gets pretty brutal and bloody.

87 uses of "fuck."

More than a dozen uses of "shit."

"Damn" is said.

"Ass" is said.

"Goddamn" is said several times.

"Titties" is said.

Several uses of "bitch-tits" (referring to a man).

1 use of "cock" and 5 uses of "balls."

A woman threatens suicide by overdosing on Xanax.

A bottle of pills is seen a few times.

Vodka and beer drinking.

There is smoking throughout the whole movie.

Several scenes take place in and around bars.

The whole film is extremely disturbing and psychologically crazy, as it depicts men engaging in acts of urban vandalism, fighting each other and doing other barbaric things in order to achieve their masculinity, whereas the Narrator (Edward Norton's character) slowly becomes increasingly insane as his inner demons begin to control him. This is all very unnerving and thought-provoking, but the film overall has a darkly comedic and satirical tone.

The movie gets intense several times, quite stressing and pressuring.

The men in the fight club go through lots of brutal pain.

Rated R for strong brutal violence and disturbing content throughout, gruesome images, language, brief drug use, and some sexuality/nudity.