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The Founder

2016Directed by John Lee Hancock1h 55m

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

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.

  • Drama
  • History

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
  • Wilbur Fitzgerald as Jerry Cullen
  • David de Vries as Jack Horford
  • Andrew Benator as Leonard Rosenblatt
  • Cara Mantella as Myra Rosenblatt
  • Randall Taylor as Owner (Ed's Drive-In)
  • Lacey King as Car Hop Girl (Ed's Drive-In)

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