First-Time Viewing

The Founder

Release Date:January 20, 2017

Running Time:115 min

Genres:Drama, History

Director

Cast

Michael Keaton Nick Offerman John Carroll Lynch Linda Cardellini B. J. Novak Laura Dern Justin Randell Brooke Kate Kneeland Patrick Wilson Griff Furst Wilbur Fitzgerald David de Vries

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

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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