The Social Network

David Fincher · 2010 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A Harvard sophomore, dumped in a bar, spends the night building a cruel campus ranking site, and the idea that grows out of it makes him the youngest billionaire alive. Two depositions frame the story as the twins who say he stole it and the friend who funded it press their claims. Fincher and Sorkin's version is prized for its rhythm rather than its reporting.

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