Lovers of legal movies and Facebook enthusiasts are bound to enjoy the movie The Social Network. The film is about the famous social networking site Facebook and some of the lawsuits that emanated as a result of the site. David Fincher directed the movie and it has a cast that includes Andrew Garfield, Jesse Eisenberg, Brenda Song, Justin Timberlake and a few other actors. The movie is adapted from the book The Accidental Billionaires.

None of the owners or anyone else associated with Facebook was involved in the making of this 2010 legal drama. Critics were quick to praise the film based on screenplay, score, editing and acting. Some even went on to say that it was the film of the year. In fact the movie received 8 Academy Award nominations and it won 3 awards for best film editing, best original score and best-adapted screenplay.

At the Golden Globe Awards it won best motion drama picture. There were a host of other awards for the movie including screenplay, director and best original score. The story begins with Mark Zuckerberg played by Jesse Eisenberg is dumped by his girlfriend Erica Albright who is played by Rooney Mara.

Zuckerberg then gets drunk and writes a vindictive blog about his ex girlfriend and this is where the idea of on an on campus website is born. The site is called Facemash and it permits members to score attractive women on the site.

The website affects the Harvard network and this causes Zuckerberg to get found out. The result is that he is placed on 6 months probation at the university. Most of the female fraternity at Harvard is now against Zuckerberg for this prank. All of this leads Zuckerberg to join forces with the Winklevoss twins where Zuckerberg agrees to be a programmer for a dating website called the Harvard Connection.

Later, Zuckerberg approaches his friend Eduardo Saverin played by Andrew Garfield and he discloses his plan to launch a website called Thefacebook which will be social networking website that is exclusive only to students at Harvard University. The plan is to make this site similar to Facemash, however all previous legal problems would be eliminated, as people would consent to signing up with the site.

Saverein becomes involved by sponsoring $1000 to get the site started, and helping to distribute the link through his friends at a club. The twins with whom Zuckerberg was originally involved want to sue Zuckerberg, as they believe that he stole the idea while working for them. The events that unfold thereafter make this movie worth seeing.

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