The Founder

About 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.

John Lee Hancock's The Founder is a 2016 history film. At 115 minutes long, it arrived in November 2016.

Its themes are greed, ambition, salesman, and family business. The film began as real events.

Michael Keaton stars as Ray Kroc, Nick Offerman as Dick McDonald, John Carroll Lynch as Mac McDonald, and Linda Cardellini as Joan Smith. The screenplay is by Robert D. Siegel. It was produced by Faliro House Productions, FilmNation Entertainment, and Speedie Distribution. It streams on Netflix in the United States.

The Pursuit of Happyness, Michael, and The Disaster Artist make useful companions to The Founder, all filed under biography. TMDB voters put it at 7.2 out of 10 across 5,605 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.