The Social Network
Sloppily dressed, complex, antagonistic, awkward around girls, and arrogant about his undeniable intelligence, Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg is the quintessential brilliant nerd. Dumped by his girlfriend and unable to get into Boston's best parties, Zuckerberg sets up - thanks to data gathered by hacking other sites and stealing an algorithm created by his friend Eduardo - a website where users can vote for the most beautiful students at the university. The success of the site is immediate and exponential: contacted by two Boston society sisters who want him to create a similar but more developed site, Zuckerberg accepts, with the aim of stealing their ideas to enrich his own invention. The popularity of Facebook explodes as Zuckerberg meets the founder of Napster, Sean Parker, whose class and sales skills he admires, and who will help him find investment capital...
