The Social Network

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Following the lawsuit-ridden birth of Facebook, this is a fascinating drama with a razor-sharp, Oscar-winning script and stellar performances

Following the lawsuit-ridden birth of Facebook, this is a fascinating drama with a razor-sharp, Oscar-winning script and stellar performances.

Jesse Eisenberg is super-smart Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg, who starts a popular college website, which gradually becomes the global social network it is today.

But there are big fall-outs along the way...

Director David Fincher keeps a tight grip on the absorbing, multi-stranded, flashback-driven story, which also takes in Andrew Garfield as Zuckerberg's friend and co-founder Eduardo Saverin, Armie Hammer as the upper-class Winklevoss twins and Justin Timberlake as Napster's Sean Parker.

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