The Founder
Film2016115 min7.2/10 on TMDB
Directed by John Lee Hancock
He took someone else's idea and America ate it up.
The story
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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Michael KeatonRay Kroc
Nick OffermanDick McDonald
John Carroll LynchMac McDonald
Linda CardelliniJoan Smith
B.J. NovakHarry J. Sonneborn
Laura DernEthel Kroc
Justin Randell BrookeFred Turner
Kate KneelandJune Martino
Patrick WilsonRollie Smith
Griff FurstJim Zien
Wilbur FitzgeraldJerry Cullen
David de VriesJack HorfordExplore the crew
- Producer
- Don Handfield
- Director
- John Lee Hancock
- Writer
- Robert D. Siegel
- Editor
- Robert Frazen
- Director of Photography
- John Schwartzman
- Producer
- Jeremy Renner
- Producer
- Aaron Ryder
- Original Music Composer
- Carter Burwell