Audio Description (AD) available for The Game and Panic Room; Closed Captions (CC) available for The Game and Fight Club.
The Game
Saturday 3 September, 8:30pm / NOTE: No catch-up at SBS On Demand
M, AD, CC
USA, 1997
Genre: Thriller, Mystery
Language: English
Director: David Fincher
Starring: Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Carroll Baker
What's it about?
Nicholas Van Orton (Douglas) is a joyless San Francisco investment banker who receives an unusual birthday present from his estranged younger brother, Conrad (Penn). The gift enrols Nicholas in CRS (Consumer Recreation Services), a company that designs elaborate real-life games for each specific participant. Nicholas then becomes the victim of a series of pranks that quickly turn malicious and dangerous.
Fight Club
Saturday 10 September, 8:30pm / NOTE: No catch-up at SBS On Demand
MA15+, CC
USA, 1999
Genre: Drama
Language: English
Director: David Fincher
Starring: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Jared Leto, Zach Grenier
What's it about?
Sick of his dead-end corporate career and disgusted with the empty consumer culture, a young man (Norton) and his devious friend (Pitt) create a new club where young men come to relieve their frustrations by beating each other to a pulp. A box office flop upon its initial theatrical release, the film quickly found a following on home video and became one of the key zeitgeist-defining films of '90s.
Panic Room
Saturday 17 September, 8:30pm / Streaming after broadcast at SBS On Demand
M
USA, 2002
Genre: Thriller
Language: English
Director: David Fincher
Starring: Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Jared Leto, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam
What's it about?
Newly divorced Meg Altman (Foster) and her young diabetic daughter Sarah (Stewart) are forced to flee to the panic room of their newly rented New York home when three men (Leto, Whitaker & Yoakam) force their way into the house on a mission to recover millions of dollars in a safe hidden – where else – in the same high security, purpose built safe haven called the panic room. Fincher's last film for five years (until 2007's Zodiac).
Gone Girl
Saturday 24 September, 8:30pm / NOTE: No catch-up at SBS On Demand
MA15+
USA, 2015
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Language: English
Director: David Fincher
Starring: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, Carrie Coon
What's it about?
On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) reports that his wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike, in an Oscar-nominated performance), has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's strange behaviour has everyone asking the same dark question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife? Based on Gillian Flynn's bestselling novel of the same name.
