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The Founder
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.
2016 · Directed by John Lee Hancock · 115 min · Drama · History · 16 frames
Tagline
He took someone else's idea and America ate it up.
Crew
- Written by: Robert D. Siegel
- Cinematography: John Schwartzman
- Edited by: Robert Frazen
- Music: Carter Burwell
- Production design: Michael Corenblith
- Produced by: Don Handfield, Jeremy Renner, Aaron Ryder
Cast
- Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc
- Nick Offerman as Dick McDonald
- John Carroll Lynch as Mac McDonald
- Linda Cardellini as Joan Smith
- B.J. Novak as Harry J. Sonneborn
- Laura Dern as Ethel Kroc
- Justin Randell Brooke as Fred Turner
- Kate Kneeland as June Martino
- Patrick Wilson as Rollie Smith
- Griff Furst as Jim Zien
Production
- Country: Greece, United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Speedie Distribution, FilmNation Entertainment, Faliro House Productions, The Combine
- Budget: $15,000,000
- Box office: $24,121,245
- Themes: greed, ambition, biography, family business , based on true story, salesman, corporate greed, fast food, corporate power, 1950s
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