Social Network

Theatrical Release Date: 2010 10 01 (USA)

UPC: 043396366237

Studio: Sony Pictures

MPAA Rating: PG13   Contains:[Profanity, Sexual Situations, Drug Content, Alcohol Consumption]

Summary: Director David Fincher (Fight Club, Seven) teams with screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing) to explore the meaning of success in the early 21st century from the perspectives of the technological innovators who revolutionized the way we all communicate. The year was 2003. As prohibitively expensive technology became affordable to the masses and the Internet made it easy to stay in touch with people who were halfway across the world, Harvard undergrad and computer programming wizard Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) launched a website with the potential to alter the very fabric of our society. At the time, Zuckerberg was just six years away from making his first million. But his hearty payday would come at a high price, because despite all of Zuckerberg's wealth and success, his personal life began to suffer as he became mired in legal disputes, and discovered that many of the 500 million people he had friended during his rise to the top were eager to see him fall. Chief among that growing list of detractors was Zuckerberg's former college friend Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), whose generous financial contributions to Facebook served as the seed that helped the company to sprout. And some might argue that Zuckerberg's bold venture wouldn't have evolved into the cultural juggernaut that it ultimately became had Napster founder Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake) not spread the word about Facebook to the venture capitalists from Silicon Valley. Meanwhile, the Winklevoss twins (Armie Hammer and Josh Pence) engage Zuckerberg in a fierce courtroom battle for ownership of Facebook that left many suspecting the young entrepreneur might have let his greed eclipse his better judgment. The Social Network was based on the book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Category: Drama

Awards: Film Presented – New York Film Festival Best Adapted Screenplay – Writers Guild of America Best Adapted Screenplay – National Board of Review Best Director – National Board of Review Best Picture – National Board of Review Best Actor – National Board of Review Best Score – L.A. Film Critics Association Best Director – New York Film Critics Circle Best Ensemble – Screen Actors Guild Best Ensemble – Screen Actors Guild Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Picture – L.A. Film Critics Association Best Screenplay – L.A. Film Critics Association Best Score – L.A. Film Critics Association Best Director – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Ensemble – Screen Actors Guild Best Ensemble – Screen Actors Guild Best Picture – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Director – L.A. Film Critics Association Best Actor – Screen Actors Guild Best Ensemble – Screen Actors Guild Best Picture – New York Film Critics Circle Best Ensemble – Screen Actors Guild Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Actor – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Picture – National Society of Film Critics Best Screenplay – National Society of Film Critics Best Editing – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Director – Directors Guild of America Best Actor – National Society of Film Critics Best Director – National Society of Film Critics Best British Supporting Actor – London Film Critics Association Best Cinematography – American Society of Cinematographers Best Art Direction in a Contemporary Film – Art Directors Guild Best Picture – London Film Critics Association Best Actor – London Film Critics Association Top Ten Film – Austin Film Critics Best Director – London Film Critics Association Best Screenplay – London Film Critics Association Best Adapted Screenplay – Austin Film Critics Best Director – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Screenplay – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Original Score – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Original Score – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Supporting Actor – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Adapted Screenplay – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Editing – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Editing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Score – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Cinematography – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound Mixing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Score – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Director – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound Mixing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Actor – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Editing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Adapted Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound Mixing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound Mixing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Features: Disc 1:
Audio commentary with David Fincher
Audio commentary with Aaron Sorkin & cast

Disc 2:
How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook? - a feature-length documentary in four parts
David Fincher and Jeff Cronenweth on the Visuals
Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter and Ren Klyce on Post
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and David Fincher on the Score
Ruby Skye VIP room: multi-angle scene breakdown
In the Hall of the Mountain King: Reznor's first draft
Swarmatron

Social Network

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 01/11/2011

Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1 2.40:1

Audio: DHMA null, DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo

Runtime: 120 Minutes

Sides: 2

Number of Discs: 2

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: Blu-ray region A (North America, Central America, South America, Japan, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia)

Perry Seibert

If The Social Network was, say, a link David Fincher posted on his Facebook page, you would like it, share it, and leave a comment along the lines of "OMG Greatest Thing EVER!!!!" (Because where would the Internet be without hyperbole?) But in this case, your enthusiasm would be entirely justified. Working from a jewel of a script by Aaron Sorkin, Fincher's examination of how socially awkward, brilliant computer programmer Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) made billions of dollars creating Facebook, and in the process alienated everyone who came close to him, opens with a sharply written breakup scene between Harvard sophomore Mark and his then-girlfriend. Written, delivered, and crisply edited with rapid-fire wit that recalls not just Sorkin's best work but rivals such classics as His Girl Friday, the scene explains everything you need to know about the film's off-putting antihero. Namely, he's hyper-intelligent, he's smug about that fact, and he can parse words -- his own and others' -- as finely as a lawyer arguing in front of the Supreme Court. After he's cluelessly callous to her, she dumps him, whereupon Mark drags his broken heart to his dorm room, starts drinking, blogs about how terrible she is, and creates a website where people rate the relative hotness of girls at Harvard. When his stunt crashes Harvard's Internet, Mark faces disciplinary action, but it also earns him enough notoriety that he gets a call from the Winklevoss twins, upperclassmen in good standing at Porcellian, one of the school's elite final clubs. They ask Mark to create a social-networking program for Harvard students, and he agrees. However, instead of shaping that site, Mark enlists some financial help from his best -- and only -- friend, Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), and creates an even better version of that idea. He calls it "The Facebook," and after it goes live their creation takes over Harvard, and they soon expand to other college campuses. Although the fledgling company quickly finds its wings, trouble looms as the Winklevosses position to sue the company. Eventually the high-rolling, hard-partying Napster creator Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake) sets his sights on Zuckerberg, worms his way into the inner circle, and attempts to get Saverin thrown out of the company. Now, with everybody suing everybody, and billions of dollars and broken friendships hanging in the balance, the principals shuttle back and forth between multiple lawsuits. One of the big reasons The Social Network remains enthralling from beginning to end is the spectacular work by the cast, who take full advantage of the flawless script. Eisenberg seizes the opportunity he's given, capturing and amplifying the worst aspects of Mark's personality, but all the while you never question the character's massive intelligence -- he seems like the kind of guy who would be able to create something as consequential as Facebook. He's an antihero, but we don't exactly root for or against him -- we just need to see what will happen to him. He's paired beautifully with Garfield, who makes Saverin's endless patience with the prickly -- and often pricky -- Zuckerberg not just virtuous, but sweet. Saverin is the audience stand-in, and when he gets his heart broken it's a chilling, if thoroughly expected, ending to a fascinatingly complicated friendship. Even Justin Timberlake finally lands a good part in a good film, and oozes smarmy charm so effortlessly that it's easy to see why someone as awkward as Mark would be drawn in by his high-energy BS. Visually, this might not be the kind of film we immediately think of when throwing around the term "Fincher-esque." Outside of a rowing race shot in a tilt-shift style that makes everything look like miniatures, there are no bravura sequences -- just whisky-soaked golden-brown interiors at Harvard, and sleek, cold meeting rooms where the characters are forced to give deposition after deposition. But the film's multiple thematic interests tickle Fincher's ongoing desire to tackle big ideas, and with elements such as the modern generation gap, the battle of the sexes, loyalty, and how the desire to get laid drives all social networks, rest assured this is, as the opening credits tell us, a David Fincher film. Nonetheless, it's also Aaron Sorkin's film. His dialogue here has a rhythm that not only allows the bon mots to hit for maximum comic effect -- you will remember many quotes from the movie -- but it also offers Eisenberg the chance to shine with a handful of monologues that are as potent and hard-hitting as the most entertaining diatribes in Paddy Chayefsky's Network. However, the film The Social Network most brings to mind is All the President's Men. Fincher takes a true story we already know the ending to and, with sizable help from Sorkin's razor-sharp characterizations and one-liners, creates a ceaselessly entertaining and compulsively watchable portrait of what may prove to be the defining social event of a generation. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Kevin Spacey  Executive Producer 
Michael De Luca  Producer 
David Fincher  Director 
Scott Rudin  Producer 
Aaron Sorkin  Screenwriter 
Ceán Chaffin  Producer 
Dana Brunetti  Producer 
Atticus Ross  Composer (Music Score) 
Trent Reznor  Composer (Music Score) 
Jesse Eisenberg  Actor 
Justin Timberlake  Actor 
Andrew Garfield  Actor 
Armie Hammer  Actor 
Max Minghella  Actor 
Josh Pence  Actor 
Brenda Song  Actor 
Rashida Jones  Actor 
Joseph Mazzello  Actor 
John Getz  Actor 
David Selby  Actor 
Denise Grayson  Actor 
Douglas Urbanski  Actor 
Rooney Mara  Actor 
Bryan Barter  Actor 
Patrick Mapel  Actor 
Barry Livingston  Actor 
Marybeth Massett  Actor 
Henry Roosevelt  Actor 
Shelby Young  Actor 
Nick Smoke  Actor 
Cali Fredrichs  Actor 
Steve Sires  Actor 
Malese Jow  Actor 
Victor Isaac  Actor 
Abhi Sinha  Actor 
Mark Saul  Actor 
Cedric Sanders  Actor 
Dakota Johnson  Actor 
Inger Tudor  Actor 
Mariah Bonner  Actor 
Emma Fitzpatrick  Actor 
James Shanklin  Actor 
Alex Reznik  Actor 
John Hayden  Actor 
Oliver Muirhead  Actor 
Wallace Langham  Actor 
Cayman Grant  Actor 
Scott Lawrence  Actor 
Jared Hillman  Actor 
Caitlin Gerard  Actor 
Peter Holden  Actor 
Darin Cooper  Actor 
Dustin Fitzsimons  Actor 
Toby Meuli  Actor 
Alecia Svenson  Actor 
Jami Owen  Actor 
James Dastoli  Actor 
Robert Dastoli  Actor 
Scotty Crowe  Actor 
Jayk Gallagher  Actor 
Trevor Wright  Actor 
Randy Evans  Actor 
Marcella Lentz-Pope  Actor 
Carrie Armstrong  Actor 
Pamela Roylance  Actor 
Brian Palermo  Actor 
Brett Leigh  Actor 
Chris Gouche  Actor 
Nancy Linari  Actor 
Aaron Sorkin  Actor 
Kyle Fain  Actor 
Christopher Khai  Actor 
Courtney Arndt  Actor 
Felisha Terrell  Actor 
Sarah Shane Adler  Actor 
Amy Ferguson  Actor 
Monique Edwards  Actor 
Lacey Beeman  Actor 
Cherilyn Rae Wilson  Actor 
Caleb Jones  Actor 
Franco Vega  Actor 
Andrew Thacher  Actor 

Country: USA