Pat McNamara

Hell's Kitchen on Ash Wednesday, 1983. Rumors are flying that Francis Sullivan's younger brother Sean, dead for three years, has reappeared. If he wasn't killed by rivals, then old scores still need settling, putting Fran and Sean in danger.

Sean was killed on Ash Wednesday while trying to protect his older brother Francis from the Irish mob. Three years later, rumors have begun circulating that Sean's death was fabricated by Francis and a sympathetic priest to get the mob off his back.

A ticking-time-bomb insomniac (Edward Norton) and a slippery soap salesman (Brad Pitt) channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Together they create a new "fight club" where young men come to relieve their frustrations by beating each other to a pulp. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until a sensuous eccentric (Helena Bonham Carter) gets in the way and ignites an out-of control spiral toward oblivion.

Sick of his dead end, white bread existence, Jack encounters an intriguing stranger who alters his relationship with reality.