The Founder (2016)

11/24/2016 (GR) • 1h 55m

Drama, History

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

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

Nick Offerman

Dick McDonald

John Carroll Lynch

Mac McDonald

B.J. Novak

Harry J. Sonneborn

Laura Dern

Ethel Kroc

Kate Kneeland

June Martino

Patrick Wilson

Rollie Smith


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$15,000,000.00

Revenue

$24,121,245.00

Keywords

greed

ambition

biography

family business

based on true story

salesman

corporate greed

fast food

corporate power

1950s

burger

mcdonald's

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