Film: The Social Network
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Rooney Mara, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake
Synopsis: The amazing true story of the computer nerd who came up with the idea for Facebook while still a student - and found 500 million new friends!
Social reject and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) is a geek with a capital G! Desperate to be one of the popular kids at Harvard he sits down at his computer and invents Facebook.
A few years later, having hit the big time, he drops out of college and sits back as the money comes rolling in.
However, although he may be a high-achieving entrepreneur with millions of online friends, he finds that in the real world things are not quite so straightforward.
Mark finds his phenomenal dotcom success leads to legal problems when his best friends accuse him of stealing their idea.
Critics: “The Social Network is easily one of the top films of the year and you won't find many better, David Fincher can rarely do any wrong and this just adds to the long list of reasons why.” - FemaleFirst
“It gets no better than this.” - Daily Mirror
“A rare and vital film that nails the concerns of privileged post-adolescence in the first few years of the 21st century, and, more universally, draws out eternal themes of truth, subjectivity and envy with an effortless elegance.” - Film4
Awards/Nominations: The Social Network has already won Best Picture at the National Board of review of Motion Picture, Boston Society of Film Critics, Los Angeles Film Critics Association and New York Film Critics Online.
It has also been nominated at the Detroit Film Society Critics, Houston Film Critics Society, Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Hollywood Foreign Press.
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