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.
- genus: 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
- cast: Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch, Linda Cardellini, B.J. Novak, Laura Dern
