The Social Network (The Social Network)
Directed by: David FincherCast list: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer, Max Minghella
Country: USA
Year: 2010
Genres: Drama / Biographical /
Runtime: 120 min.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year: Versió original en anglès subtitulada en castellà
On a fall night in 2003, Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard undergraduate and computer programmer, sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what he begins in his dormitory soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.
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Subjects: English language / Social Science, Geography and History / Computer. Internet. New technologies / Contemporary world /
Topics: biographies, autobiographies / world of work, employment relationships / human relations, psychology, sociology / film adaptation of literary or graphic work /
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