The Founder

2016 115 min Drama, History

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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IMDb 7.2 RT 80 Metacritic 66

budget $15,000,000 earnings $24,121,245 return 1.6x

director John Lee Hancock

writer Robert D. Siegel

cast