The Founder (2016)
November 24, 2016
Drama, History
1h 55m
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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.
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Cast & Crew
- Director
- John Lee Hancock
- Ray Kroc Michael Keaton
- Dick McDonald Nick Offerman
- Mac McDonald John Carroll Lynch
- Joan Smith Linda Cardellini
- Harry J. Sonneborn B.J. Novak
- Ethel Kroc Laura Dern
- Fred Turner Justin Randell Brooke
- June Martino Kate Kneeland
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Recommendations
Keywords
- greed
- ambition
- biography
- family business
- based on true story
- salesman
- corporate greed
- fast food
- corporate power
- franchise
- 1950s
- burger
- mcdonald's