Acclaimed by the American press, but disowned by the founder of Facebook, the movie based on the life of the youngest billionaire in the world opened Friday across the country.

In the movie social network, actor Jesse Eisenberg plays the role of Mark Zuckerberg, a young American student at Harvard University who has revolutionized how Internet users maintain relations between them. The Facebook site now has some 500 million users worldwide.

The new film from director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, based on the book by Ben Mezrich ‘The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook’, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal , is more fiction, say the filmmakers. They insist, however, to assert that they have taken to provide a credible portrait of the young prodigy.

However, Mark Zuckerberg disown the film, which portrays him as a student and asocial in which the theme of betrayal is very present. The script lifts the veil on such lawsuits brought former allies What’s youngest billionaire in his adventure as he tried to create a virtual network larger.

The social network also features Justin Timberlake in the role of Sean Parker, founder of Napster.