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The Founder

He took someone else's idea and America ate it up.

2016 · PG-13 · 1h 55m

Directed by John Lee Hancock

7.2

TMDB audience score
5,614 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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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

  • Andrew Benator
    Leonard Rosenblatt

  • Cara Mantella
    Myra Rosenblatt

  • Randall Taylor
    Owner (Ed's Drive-In)

  • Lacey King
    Car Hop Girl (Ed's Drive-In)

  • Jeremy Madden
    Dennis

  • Rebecca Ray
    Car Hop Girl (Joe's Drive-In)