The Founder

2016 7.1 (5083 votes) 1h 55m

Genres

Drama History

Production Companies

Speedie Distribution
FilmNation Entertainment
Faliro House Productions
The Combine
The Weinstein Company

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.