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2016

The Founder

Directed by John Lee Hancock
He took someone else's idea and America ate it up.

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.

Duration

1h 55m

Released

November 24, 2016

Revenue

$24,121,245

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Cast47

  • Michael Keaton
  • Nick Offerman
  • John Carroll Lynch
  • Linda Cardellini
  • B.J. Novak
  • Laura Dern
  • Justin Randell Brooke
  • Kate Kneeland
  • Patrick Wilson

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