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Bottoms | Fight Club

(Emma Seligman, 2023) | (David Fincher, 1999)

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Double Feature

left image shows two teenage girls wearing polo shirts, one with a bandage on her nose; right image is a group of men with a shirtless Brad Pitt in front.

Your life is ending one minute at a time—why not spend 240 of them with fist fighting, lesbian yearning, and sweaty male bonding?

Shake off those end-of-summer blues with a ferocious double feature at the Wex! High schoolers Josie (Ayo Edebiri) and PJ (Rachel Sennott) are best friends, lesbians, and definitely losers. United in their quest to lose their virginities, they start a fight club with the hopes of getting closer to the cheerleaders of their dreams. Laugh-out-loud funny and absurd, Bottoms defies teen comedy tropes to ask: to what lengths must unpopular kids go to get laid? (92 mins., DCP) 

Afterward, refresh your popcorn and soda and stick around for David Fincher’s Fight Club. An adaptation of the Chuck Palahniuk novel, this dark and surreal drama has been on its own queer journey since its 1999 release. In the last 25 years, Fight Club’s reputation as a hypermasculine, super cynical critique of American consumer culture has been revisited by many a Gen Z’er who pick up on (not so subtle) homoerotic subtext. Fight Club dares to ask: to what lengths must men go to touch each other and feel alive? (139 mins., DCP) 

There will be a brief intermission between the two films. 

Attention students: your tickets, an order of popcorn, and sodas are on the house!

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Bottoms, courtesy of MGM Studios. Fight Club, courtesy of 20th Century Fox.

"The go-for-broke energy of [Bottoms] makes it consistently infectious."
Derek Smith, Slant Magazine

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FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY 
National Endowment for the Arts 
Ohio Humanities

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY 
Rohauer Collection Foundation

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY 
Ohio Department of Development

Greater Columbus Arts Council

The Wexner Family 
Institute of Museum and Library Services

Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts 
CampusParc 
Nationwide Foundation 
Ohio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme 
The Columbus Foundation 
Axium Packaging 
Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY 
Mike and Paige Crane 
Nancy Kramer 
Ohio State Energy Partners 
Ohio History Fund/Ohio History Connection 
Larry and Donna James 
David Crane and Elizabeth Dang 
Bruce and Joy Soll 
Melissa Gilliam and William Grobman 
Rebecca Perry Damsen and Ben Towle 
Jones Day 
Alex and Renée Shumate

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Bottoms | Fight Club