• Director: David Fincher
  • Release Year: 2010
  • Production Country: United States
  • Language: English

The Social Network

Description

Hired to work on a Harvard University socially centered website, a young student, Mark Zuckerberg, takes the idea for his own and puts his own spin on it with two friends, starting up "thefacebook," which becomes a social networking site for universities that proves extremely popular, quickly expanding out to the general public and becoming a multi-million dollar company; however, even as they celebrate the company's success, Zuckerberg finds himself under fire for previous misdeeds, at the same time that he maneuvers behind the scenes so that he alone will wind up on top of the Facebook phenomenon.

Themes

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (b. 1984), Social networking, Technology, Crime, Law and legalities, Conspiracies, Piracy, Social movements, Internet, Capitalism, Literature