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… Read more
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The Founder
Where to watch: Netflix
Movie · Drama · History · PG-13
2016 · 1h 55m · ★ 46% (617K)
He took someone else's idea and America ate it up.
Director: John Lee Hancock
Starring: Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch
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.
Director
John Lee Hancock
Production
Speedie Distribution, FilmNation Entertainment, Faliro House Productions, The Combine, The Weinstein Company
Cast
Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch, Linda Cardellini, B.J. Novak, Laura Dern, Justin Randell Brooke, Kate Kneeland, Patrick Wilson, Griff Furst, Wilbur Fitzgerald, David de Vries, Andrew Benator, Cara Mantella, Randall Taylor, Lacey King, Jeremy Madden, Rebecca Ray, Adam Rosenberg, Jacinte Blankenship