The Social Network

The Social Network is a 2010 American English - language film directed by David Fincher. It is a biographical drama film that stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer and Tyler Winklevoss, and Max Minghella. The film is an adaptation of the 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich. The film starts in 2003 when a Harvard undergrad and computer genius Mark Zuckerberg ideates a new concept and begins to work on the same. This idea eventually turned into the global social network known as Facebook and became very popular all over the world. Six years later, he is one of the youngest billionaires ever, but this results in both personal and legal complications when two lawsuits are filed against him, one involving his former friend.