The Founder

The Founder (2016)

He took someone else's idea and America ate it up.

The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.

Date of release
2016-11-24
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (5574)
Runtime
1h 55m
Genres
Drama, History
Director
John Lee Hancock

Casting

  • Michael Keaton — Ray Kroc
  • Nick Offerman — Dick McDonald
  • John Carroll Lynch — Mac McDonald
  • Linda Cardellini — Joan Smith
  • B.J. Novak — Harry J. Sonneborn
  • Laura Dern — Ethel Kroc
  • Justin Randell Brooke — Fred Turner
  • Kate Kneeland — June Martino
  • Patrick Wilson — Rollie Smith
  • Griff Furst — Jim Zien
  • Wilbur Fitzgerald — Jerry Cullen
  • David de Vries — Jack Horford

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