The Founder poster
Director John Lee Hancock
Writer Robert D. Siegel

The Founder

Tagline: He took someone else's idea and America ate it up.

Release Date: 2016-11-24

Duration: 115 minutes

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.

Casting

  • Linda Cardellini
    Joan Smith
  • Michael Keaton
    Ray Kroc
  • Laura Dern
    Ethel Kroc
  • Nick Offerman
    Dick McDonald
  • Patrick Wilson
    Rollie Smith
  • John Carroll Lynch
    Mac McDonald
  • B.J. Novak
    Harry J. Sonneborn
  • Wilbur Fitzgerald
    Jerry Cullen
  • Victor McCay
    Kroc Divorce Lawyer
  • Ric Reitz
    Will Davis (LA Times Reporter)