You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies
| Cast |
Jesse Eisenberg, Rooney Mara, Bryan Barter, Brenda Song, Dustin Fitzsimons, Armie Hammer, Joseph Mazzello |
| Director |
David Fincher |
| Screenplay | Aaron Sorkin, from the book by Ben Mezrich |
| Music | Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross |
| Cinematography | Jeff Croneweth |
| Editing | Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
| SA distributor | Ster-Kinekor |
| Made in | 2010 |
| Produced by | Columbia Pictures, Relativity Media, Michael De Luca Productions, Scott Rudin Productions, Trigger Street Productions |
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| Genre | Biography, drama |
| Language | Moderate, fairly frequent |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | Occasional, implied strongly, action off screen moderate |
| Violence | None |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | Mild profanity |
| Drug abuse | Frequent alcohol use and abuse, brief and infrequent coke snorting |
| Comments | A type of loose lifestyle enjoyed by college students is glamourised and could encourage younger viewers to the use of drugs and alcohol |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Diane de Beer  Network with a sting in the tale | 15 |  |
| Die Burger Laetitia Pople Intense en spannende drama | 15 | |
| Cape Times Kirk Honeycutt Gains not worth the loss | 20 | |
| Box Office Pete Hammond Fincher has taken this compelling true story and given it drama and significance well beneath its surface to create a landmark masterwork and a must-see movie event. | 20 | |
| Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert The Social Network is a great film not because of its dazzling style or visual cleverness, but because it is splendidly well-made. | 20 | |
| eye Weekly Jason Anderson No recent film conveys the pleasures and pitfalls of human conversation with the same enthusiasm or fascination as director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s fiendishly clever docudrama about the roundelay of alliances and betrayals that surrounded the birth of Facebook. | 15 | |
| ScreenIt C. Fuchs Terrific and completely engaging film. | 16 | |
| Metacritic.com 42 critics | 19 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 244 critics | 18 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Impeccably scripted, beautifully directed, and filled with fine performances, The Social Network is a riveting, ambitious example of modern filmmaking at its finest. | 19 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 20575 Netizens Fincher's best since Fight Club | 17 | |
Average .. 88% | 18 | |