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The Founder
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.
Where to watch The Founder
The Founder is streaming in the US on Netflix.
It is also available to rent or buy from Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube and Fandango At Home.
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
Details
- Director
- John Lee Hancock
- Released
- November 24, 2016
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Studio
- Speedie Distribution, FilmNation Entertainment and Faliro House Productions
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 7.2 / 10 from 5,552 votes
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