Sheryl Sandberg

If all of that sounds a bit touchy-feely, well, it is. Ms. Sandberg, a well-regarded Internet executive, is known for her interpersonal skills as much as for her sharp intellect. And her regular meetings with the famously introverted Mr. Zuckerberg have helped to keep one of Silicon Valley's most unusual business partnerships working wonders for Facebook.

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Sean Parker

The writing by Aaron Sorkin is what you'd expect. Fast, precise, and smart. But it somehow works better in this than in some of his stuff.

The casting is perfect. Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg is very good, but the best parts are Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin and Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, the Napster guy who invested in Facebook and helped to run Saverin out. He's turning out to be a very good actor. Sean Parker is kind of a douche, apparently.

The film starts when Zuckerberg did the Facesmash thing at Harvard, which crashed the Harvard network, which then led him to get the attention of some wealthy rowers who wanted to do kind of a dating site sort of thing that would, according to the film, take advantage of the exclusivity of Harvard.

The film flashes back and forth between depositions from the suits against Zuckerberg by Saverin and the Winkelvoss twins (the rowers) and the events in dispute.

It ends with the moment they got their 1 millionth user.

It suggests that his conversation with the rich kids about programming their site did inspire Zuckerman's first idea for the original thefacebook, but he did all the work and made it much more than what they had in mind. Sean Parker

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