
Feature film — 2016
The Founder (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.
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Speedie Distribution / FilmNation Entertainment / Faliro House Productions / The Combine / The Weinstein Company
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Director: John Lee Hancock
On screen
Cast & crew

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
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