The Founder

The Founder

115 mins | Drama, History | Sept. 13, 2016

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.

The Founder

115 mins | Drama, History | Sept. 13, 2016

The Founder
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.
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers The Weinstein Company, FilmNation Entertainment, Faliro House Productions, The Combine, Speedie Distribution
Original title The Founder
Directors Amir R. Khan, Katherine Steets, Phil Hardage, John Lee Hancock
Writers Robert D. Siegel

Cast

Michael Keaton

as Ray Kroc

Nick Offerman

as Dick McDonald

John Carroll Lynch

as Mac McDonald

Linda Cardellini

as Joan Smith

Patrick Wilson

as Rollie Smith

B. J. Novak

as Harry Sonneborn

Laura Dern

as Ethel Kroc

Justin Randell Brooke

as Fred Turner

Kate Kneeland

as June Martino

Wilbur Fitzgerald

as Jerry Cullen

Griff Furst

as Jim Zien

David de Vries

as Jack Horford

Andrew Benator

as Leonard Rosenblatt

Cara Mantella

as Myra Rosenblatt

Randall Taylor

as Owner (Ed's Drive-In)

Kabby Borders

as Cheerleader #1