The Founder
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The Founder (2016)

12A
17/02/2017 (GB)
Drama, History
1h 55m

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.

  • John Lee HancockDirector
  • Robert D. SiegelWriter
  • Status

    Released

  • Original Language

    English

  • Budget

    $15,000,000

  • Revenue

    $24,121,245

Keywords

  • greed
  • ambition
  • biography
  • family business
  • based on true story
  • salesman
  • corporate greed
  • fast food
  • corporate power
  • 1950s
  • burger
  • mcdonald's

Top Billed Cast

Michael Keaton

Michael Keaton

Ray Kroc

Nick Offerman

Nick Offerman

Dick McDonald

John Carroll Lynch

John Carroll Lynch

Mac McDonald

Linda Cardellini

Linda Cardellini

Joan Smith

B.J. Novak

B.J. Novak

Harry J. Sonneborn

Laura Dern

Laura Dern

Ethel Kroc

Justin Randell Brooke

Justin Randell Brooke

Fred Turner

Kate Kneeland

Kate Kneeland

June Martino

Patrick Wilson

Patrick Wilson

Rollie Smith

Griff Furst

Griff Furst

Jim Zien

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