Edward Norton Academy Award for Best Actor. Later, Norton starred with Matt Damon in "Rounders", which follows two friends who urgently need to earn enough cash playing poker to pay off a huge debt. In David Fincher's 1999 film "Fight Club", Norton played an unreliable narrator who feels trapped in his white-collar position. It is based on Chuck Palahniuk's novel of the same name. To prepare for the role, Norton took lessons in boxing, taekwondo and grappling. "Fight Club" premiered at the 1999 Venice International Film Festival. During promotion for the film, he said, "I feel that "Fight Club" really, in a
Nothing but the Truth (1929 film) asks him if he loves her and what he had done with all the money, he tells her the answer without telling a lie. Around 4pm, Robert has won the money by telling the truth. Nothing but the Truth (1929 film) Nothing But the Truth is a 1929 American sound comedy film starring Richard Dix, loosely adapted from the play by James Montgomery and the novel by Frederic S. Isham. The play was adapted again (more faithfully) as "Nothing But the Truth" (1941) starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard. Separate French, German and Spanish versions were made at the Joinville