- Release Date: Oct 01, 2010
- Rated:
Language, drug and alcohol use and sexual content - Runtime: 2 hr. 1 min.
- Genres: Drama
- Director: David Fincher
- Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield,
(The West Wing) to explore the meaning of success in the early 21st Century from
the perspectives of the technological innovators who revolutionized the way we all
communicate. The year was 2003. As prohibitively expensive technology became
affordable to the masses and the internet made it easy to stay in touch with people
who were halfway across the world, Harvard undergrad and computer programming
wizard Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) launched a website with the potential to
alter the very fabric of our society. At the time, Zuckerberg was just six years away
from making his first million. But his hearty payday would come at a high price,
because despite all of Zuckerberg's wealth and success, his personal life began
to suffer as he became marred in legal disputes, and discovered that many of the
500 million people he had friended during his rise to the top were eager to see
him fall. Chief among that growing list of detractors was Zuckerberg's former
college friend Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), whose generous financial
contributions to Facebook served as the seed that helped the company to sprout.
And some might argue that Zuckerberg's bold venture wouldn't have evolved into
the cultural juggernaut that it ultimately became had Napster founder Sean Parker
(Justin Timberlake) not spread the word about Facebook to the venture capitalists
from Silicon Valley. Meanwhile, the Winklevoss twins (Arnie Hammer and Josh Pence)
engage Zuckerberg in a fierce courtroom battle for ownership of Facebook that
left many suspecting the young entrepreneur may have let his greed eclipse his
better judgment. Based on the book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich.
~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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