FILM

The Founder (2016)

Name: The Founder
Director: John Lee Hancock
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 2016-11-24
Cast: Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch, Linda Cardellini, B.J. Novak

Film · 2016 · 115 min · PG-13 · Drama · History

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.

Directed by John Lee Hancock

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

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Release dates in the United States

In cinemas	20 January 2017
Digital release	Not listed
Physical release	18 April 2017
First release anywhere	24 November 2016

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