The Social Network (2010)

This is an okay movie based on a true story. Harvard freshman and expert programmer Marc Zuckerman (Jesse Eisenberg) returns to his dorm room drunk, after being dumped by his girlfriend (Rooney Mara). Within a few hours he hacks into the school’s network, downloading pictures of all the students for a new website where women can be rated and compared. Another day he starts developing an exclusive social network webpage for college students. His idea becomes really popular, and he is sued by others who feel they deserve credit for the proposal.

I enjoyed the music. I didn’t know about the controversy surrounding the founding and ownership of Facebook. Jesse Eisenberg’s birthday is very close to mine. The story is based on the nonfiction book, The Accidental Billionaires written by Ben Mezrich. Eisenberg's cousin, Eric Fisher, was a Facebook product designer. Scenes were filmed around the campuses of two Massachusetts prep schools, Phillips Academy and Milton Academy. The Beatles rarely license their music to be used in feature films, but this time they gave permission for the song "Baby You’re A Rich Man."