The Founder

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.

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  Michael Keaton

  Ray Kroc
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  Nick Offerman

  Dick McDonald
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  John Carroll Lynch

  Mac McDonald
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  Linda Cardellini

  Joan Smith
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  B.J. Novak

  Harry J. Sonneborn
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  Laura Dern

  Ethel Kroc
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  Justin Randell Brooke

  Fred Turner
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  Kate Kneeland

  June Martino
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  Patrick Wilson

  Rollie Smith
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  Griff Furst

  Jim Zien