The Founder
He took someone else's idea and America ate it up.
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.
- Year : 2016
- Country : Greece, United States of America
- Genre : Drama, History
- Studio : Speedie Distribution, FilmNation Entertainment, Faliro House Productions, The Combine, The Weinstein Company
- Keyword : greed, ambition, biography, family business , based on true story, salesman, corporate greed, fast food, corporate power, franchise, 1950s, burger, mcdonald's
- Director : John Lee Hancock
- Cast : Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch, Linda Cardellini, B.J. Novak, Laura Dern