The Founder (2016)
Rating: 7.1/10
Duration: 115 min
Director(s): John Lee Hancock,
Description:
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.
Cast
- John Carroll Lynch as Mac McDonald
- Laura Dern as Ethel Kroc
- Patrick Wilson as Rollie Smith
- Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc
- Nick Offerman as Dick McDonald
- Griff Furst as Jim Zien
- Wilbur Fitzgerald as Jerry Cullen
- B.J. Novak as Harry J. Sonneborn
- Linda Cardellini as Joan Smith
- Justin Randell Brooke as Fred Turner
- Kate Kneeland as June Martino
- David de Vries as Jack Horford
- Andrew Benator as Leonard Rosenblatt
- Cara Mantella as Myra Rosenblatt
- Randall Taylor as Owner (Ed's Drive-In)