Starring: Jesse "Zombieland" Eisenberg (Mark Zuckerberg), Justin Timberlake (Shawn Parker), etc.
Based on the true to life story of how a nearly friendless computer nerd at Harvard University around 2003 became the youngest billionaire in history soon after founding the popular Facebook website. It started out at Harvard and gradually proliferated to other colleges and eventually to millions of computer users around the world. Much of the movie takes place in disciplinary hearings against Zuckerberg, but he eventually has the last laugh. Along the way, Mark's evidently sole friend helps him fund the venture, but the friend and several other Harvard-based rivals sue him over the idea. Eisenberg gives a potentially award-winning performance, and surprisingly, popular singer Timberlake was also excellent as the hard-partying Shawn Parker, founder of the notorious Napster music-sharing website. Parker gets involved in Facebook, much to the chagrin of Zuckerberg's best friend and business partner. This movie was really interesting and fun to watch, somewhat similar to the earlier movie "21" about M.I.T. students who start card counting in Las Vegas.
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