The Social Network

Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg begins building a campus social network after a bitter breakup. As the platform expands beyond Harvard, partnerships with Eduardo Saverin and the Winklevoss twins become the subject of competing ownership claims and later depositions.

Fincher and Sorkin transform programming, friendship, ownership, and betrayal into verbal action, crosscutting two depositions with the site's creation while Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's electronic score gives private resentment a cold, propulsive pulse.