The Founder (2016)
He took someone else's idea and America ate it up.
115 min
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.
- Release date
- January 20, 2017
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $15,000,000
- Box office
- $24,121,245
Trailer
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
Crew
- John Lee Hancock · Director
- Robert Siegel · Writer
- Don Handfield · Producer
- Jeremy Renner · Producer
- Aaron Ryder · Producer
- Carter Burwell · Composer
- John Schwartzman · Cinematographer
- Robert Frazen · Editor
- Ronna Kress · Casting director
- Michael Corenblith · Production designer