MIS 750: Movie: The Social Network.

The Social Network is a 2010 American drama film directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin. Adapted from Ben Mezrich's 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires, the film portrays the founding of social networking website Facebook and the resulting lawsuits. It stars Jesse Eisenberg as founder Mark Zuckerberg, along with Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin and Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, the other principals involved in the website's creation. Neither Zuckerberg nor any other Facebook staff were involved with the project, although Saverin was a consultant for Mezrich's book.^[3] The film was released in the United States byColumbia Pictures on October 1, 2010.

The film received widespread acclaim, with critics praising it for its editing, acting, score, direction and screenplay. However, some people, including Zuckerberg himself, criticized the film for its many inaccuracies. The Social Network appeared on 78 critics' Top 10 lists for 2010; of those critics, 22 had the film in their number-one spot. Rolling Stone's Peter Travers said "The Social Network is the movie of the year. But Fincher and Sorkin triumph by taking it further. Lacing their scathing wit with an aching sadness, they define the dark irony of the past decade."

It received eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director (Fincher), and Best Actor (Eisenberg), and won three for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Film Editing. At the 68th Golden Globe Awards, the film won Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Original Score.

• Every age has its visionaries who leave, in the wake of their genius, a changed world--but rarely without a battle over exactly what happened and who was there at the moment of creation. "The Social Network" explores the moment at which Facebook was invented--through the warring perspectives of the super-smart young men who each claimed to be there at its inception. The movie moves from the halls of Harvard to the cubicles of Palo Alto to capture the heady early days of a culture-changing phenomenon in the making--and the way it both pulled a group of young revolutionaries together and then split them apart. In the midst of the chaos are Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg), the brilliant Harvard student who conceived a Web site; Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), once Zuckerberg's close friend, who provided the seed money for the fledgling company; Napster founder Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake), who brought Facebook to Silicon Valley's venture capitalists; and the Winklevoss twins (Armie Hammer and Josh Pence), the Harvard classmates who asserted that Zuckerberg stole their idea and then sued him for ownership of it. Each has his own narrative, his own version of the Facebook story in this multi-level portrait of 21st Century success--both the youthful fantasy of it and its finite realities as well.
  - Written by Columbia Pictures
  
  
  • Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg
  • Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin
  • Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker
  • Armie Hammer as Cameron Winklevoss
  • Armie Hammer & Josh Pence as Tyler Winklevoss
  • Max Minghella as Divya Narendra
  • Brenda Song as Christy Ling
  • Rashida Jones as Marylin Delpy^[4][5]
  • Steve Sires as Bill Gates ^[6]
  • John Getz as Sy
  • David Selby as Gage
  • Denise Grayson as Gretchen
  • Douglas Urbanski as Larry Summers
  • Rooney Mara as Erica Albright
  • Joseph Mazzello as Dustin Moskovitz
  • Dustin Fitzsimons as The Phoenix – S K Club President
  • Wallace Langham as Peter Thiel
  • Dakota Johnson as Amelia Ritter
  • Malese Jow as Alice Cantwel
  • Trevor Wright as Josh Thompson
  • Shelby Young as K.C.
  • Aaron Sorkin as Ad Executive