The Founder (2016)

The Founder (2016)

1h 55min | Biography, Drama, History | 20 January 2017 (USA)


Director: John Lee Hancock

Writer: Robert D. Siegel (as Robert Siegel)


Stars: Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch |



The story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned two brothers' innovative fast food eatery, McDonald's, into the biggest restaurant business in the world, with a combination of ambition, persistence, and ruthlessness.

Risk taker. Rule breaker. Game changer.

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.