
The Founder
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.
- Genre: Drama, History
- Studio: The Weinstein Company, FilmNation Entertainment, Faliro House Productions, The Combine, Speedie Distribution
- Keyword: ambition, greed, biography, family business , hamburger, based on true story, salesman, fast food, franchise, 1950s, burger
- Cast: Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch, Linda Cardellini, Patrick Wilson, B.J. Novak