The Founder (2016)
He took someone else's idea and America ate it up.
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.
Cast
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Michael Keaton
as Ray Kroc
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Nick Offerman
as Dick McDonald
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John Carroll Lynch
as Mac McDonald
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Linda Cardellini
as Joan Smith
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B.J. Novak
as Harry J. Sonneborn
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Laura Dern
as Ethel Kroc
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Justin Randell Brooke
as Fred Turner
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Kate Kneeland
as June Martino
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Patrick Wilson
as Rollie Smith
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Griff Furst
as Jim Zien
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Wilbur Fitzgerald
as Jerry Cullen
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David de Vries
as Jack Horford
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Andrew Benator
as Leonard Rosenblatt
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Cara Mantella
as Myra Rosenblatt
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Randall Taylor
as Owner (Ed's Drive-In)
- Lacey King as Car Hop Girl (Ed's Drive-In)
- Jeremy Madden as Dennis
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Rebecca Ray
as Car Hop Girl (Joe's Drive-In)
Crew
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John Lee Hancock
Director
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John Schwartzman
Director of Photography
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Robert Frazen
Editor
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Carter Burwell
Original Music Composer
- Don Handfield Producer
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Jeremy Renner
Producer
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Aaron Ryder
Producer
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Robert D. Siegel
Writer
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