Founder

A sharp and satisfyingly fat-free account of...a wily salesman.
-- Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times

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The Founder

Directed by John Lee Hancock (SAVING MR. BANKS), THE FOUNDER features the true story of how Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a struggling 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. Writer Robert Siegel (THE WRESTLER) details how Kroc maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire. The film also stars Laura Dern as Ray Kroc’s first wife Ethel; John Carroll Lynch as Mac McDonald and Nick Offerman as Dick McDonald.
PG-13
Runtime
115
Language
English
Director
Lee Han
Cast
Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, BJ Novak, Laura Dern, Justin Randell Brooke, Kate Kneeland, Patrick Wilson
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Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice

Like its subject, the man who took McDonald’s from a single burger shop to a globe-straddling child-fattener, John Lee Hancock's The Founder can't stop selling. The first fast-food kitchen, set up in 1953 by the solemn McDonald brothers in San Bernardino, gets celebrated here as rousingly as John ...

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