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The Founder (2016)
Directed by John Lee Hancock
“He took someone else's idea and America ate it up.”
Drama, History · 1h 55m
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
Crew
- Director
- John Lee Hancock
- Writer
- Robert D. Siegel
- Director of Photography
- John Schwartzman
- Original Music Composer
- Carter Burwell
- Editor
- Robert Frazen
- Producer
- Don Handfield, Jeremy Renner, Aaron Ryder
Details
- Release date
- 2016-11-24
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Greece, United States of America
- Production
- Speedie Distribution, FilmNation Entertainment, Faliro House Productions, The Combine, The Weinstein Company
- Budget
- $15,000,000
- Box office
- $24,121,245