What year was The Social Network released?

The Social Network was released in 2010. David Fincher’s film opened in the United States on October 1, 2010, after a limited release in September, and dramatized the founding of Facebook and the lawsuits that followed.

Aaron Sorkin wrote the screenplay, adapting Ben Mezrich’s 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires. Jesse Eisenberg played Mark Zuckerberg, with Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin, Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, and Armie Hammer portraying twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. The film uses parallel depositions to move between the company’s early development and the competing legal accounts of what happened.

Although based on real people and events, the movie is a dramatization rather than a documentary. Its dialogue, timelines, and character relationships were shaped for narrative effect, and Zuckerberg disputed parts of its portrayal. Fincher’s direction, Sorkin’s rapid dialogue, and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s electronic score became central to the film’s identity.

The Social Network received widespread critical acclaim, won three Academy Awards, and is often remembered as a defining movie about technology, ambition, friendship, and the early social-media era.