The Founder
"He took someone else's idea and America ate it up."
Overview
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.
Movie Details
Budget
$15.0M
$15,000,000
Revenue
$24.1M
$24,121,245
Languages
English
Studio
Speedie Distribution
+4 more
Key Crew
John Lee Hancock
Director
Robert D. Siegel
Writer
Jeremy Renner
Producer
Harvey Weinstein
Executive Producer
Bob Weinstein
Executive Producer
Christos V. Konstantakopoulos
Executive Producer
David S. Greathouse
Executive Producer
David C. Glasser
Executive Producer
Cast
Michael Keaton
Ray Kroc
Nick Offerman
Dick McDonald
John Carroll Lynch
Mac McDonald
Linda Cardellini
Joan Smith
B.J. Novak
Harry J. Sonneborn
Laura Dern
Ethel Kroc
Justin Randell Brooke
Fred Turner
Kate Kneeland
June Martino
Patrick Wilson
Rollie Smith
Griff Furst
Jim Zien
Wilbur Fitzgerald
Jerry Cullen
David de Vries
Jack Horford
Andrew Benator
Leonard Rosenblatt
Cara Mantella
Myra Rosenblatt
Randall Taylor
Owner (Ed's Drive-In)
Lacey King
Car Hop Girl (Ed's Drive-In)
Jeremy Madden
Dennis
Rebecca Ray
Car Hop Girl (Joe's Drive-In)
Adam Rosenberg
Employee (San Bernadino)
Jacinte Blankenship
Woman (San Bernadino)
