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Welcome week screening!
Double Feature
Free for students$8 members and adults 55 and over$10 general public
ACCESSIBILITY We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation such as CART captioning or ASL interpretation to participate in this event, please email accessibility@wexarts.org or call (614) 688-3890. Requests made by two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the Wexner Center for the Arts will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
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!
IMAGE CAPTIONBottoms, courtesy of MGM Studios. Fight Club, courtesy of 20th Century Fox.
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
Past Film/Video
Bottoms | Fight Club