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The Founder

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The Founder

Nov 24, 2016

1h 55m

★ 7.1

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.

Genres

Drama

History

Production Companies

Speedie Distribution

FilmNation Entertainment

Faliro House Productions

The Combine

The Weinstein Company

The Founder Trailers

Cast

Michael Keaton

Ray Kroc

Michael Keaton

Nick Offerman

Dick McDonald

Nick Offerman

John Carroll Lynch

Mac McDonald

John Carroll Lynch

Linda Cardellini

Joan Smith

Linda Cardellini

B.J. Novak

Harry J. Sonneborn

B.J. Novak

Laura Dern

Ethel Kroc

Laura Dern

Justin Randell Brooke

Fred Turner

Justin Randell Brooke

Kate Kneeland

June Martino

Kate Kneeland

Patrick Wilson

Rollie Smith

Patrick Wilson

Griff Furst

Jim Zien

Griff Furst

Wilbur Fitzgerald

Jerry Cullen

Wilbur Fitzgerald

David de Vries

Jack Horford

David de Vries

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