The Founder

2016·115'

John Lee Hancock

DramaHistory

English

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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.

Cast

Michael Keaton Ray Kroc Nick Offerman Dick McDonald John Carroll Lynch Mac McDonald Linda Cardellini Joan Smith B.J. Novak Harry J. Sonneborn Laura Dern Ethel Kroc Justin Randell Brooke Fred Turner Kate Kneeland June Martino Patrick Wilson Rollie Smith Griff Furst Jim Zien Wilbur Fitzgerald Jerry Cullen David de Vries Jack Horford