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24/11/2016 Drama, History 1h 55m
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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.

  1. Robert D. Siegel

    Writer

  2. John Lee Hancock

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Michael Keaton

    Ray Kroc

  2. Nick Offerman

    Dick McDonald

  3. John Carroll Lynch

    Mac McDonald

  4. Linda Cardellini

    Joan Smith

  5. B.J. Novak

    Harry J. Sonneborn

  6. Laura Dern

    Ethel Kroc

  7. Justin Randell Brooke

    Fred Turner

  8. Kate Kneeland

    June Martino

  9. Patrick Wilson

    Rollie Smith

  10. View more

Full Cast & Crew

Reviews

A review by The Movie Mob
Written by The Movie Mob on 2022-08-19
**Overall : A brilliant telling of a bleak story that left a disappointing flavor in my soul.**

I remember the plaque in our McDonalds growing up about its founder, Ray Kroc, but this movie tells a much different story. Suddenly, I am questioning whether or not I should let my two-year-old eat McDonald's anymore! Michael Keaton's relentless portrayal of the opportunistic and duplicitous Ray Kroc is so spectacular that I questioned whether I even liked Keaton. Yet, he is one of my favorite actors! That is just how disheartening the true story of McDonald's' meteoric expansion is. The Founder...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$15,000,000.00

Revenue
$24,121,245.00

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