The Founder

2017 "Risk taker. Rule breaker. Game changer."
7.2| 1h55m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 20 January 2017 Released
Producted By: The Weinstein Company
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://thefounderfilm.com/
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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.

Genre

Drama, History

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Director

John Lee Hancock

Production Companies

The Weinstein Company

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Actuakers One of my all time favorites.
Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.
Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
Matt Greene The Founder has a bit of a familiar, procedural skin in its story of McDonald's, but the through-line of how one man can so steadily lose his integrity is a strong one. Ray Kroc is one of the most intentionally unsympathetic protagonists ever, with Keaton awesomely portraying the man's slow descent from simply self-centered to full-on monster.
saru-88447 McDonalds: A hell of a good inspirational story. Just about how the founder found a way to own the land and to lease the property to the franchise to run the business all over the world. The story of a man who succeded with huge persistence and determination but not with talent or education as it clearly states that this world is full of educated fools.
Andrew Pelechaty Affectionately known as every eighties/nineties child's favourite Batman, Michael Keaton continues his cinematic comeback with this wonderful biopic of Ray Kroc, the struggling travelling salesman who turned McDonald's into today's fast food behemoth.Keaton plays Kroc as an opportunist, who uses a surprise bulk order for his milkshake machine from brothers Dick (Nick Offerman) and Mac (John Carroll Lynch) McDonald, sees their at-the-time original fast food restaurant (in an era of deathly slow drive-in restaurants), enthusiastically becomes involved and transforms McDonald's into a powerful nationwide franchise, despite the brothers' reluctance.Kroc is a ruthless, single-minded businessman, putting McDonald's ahead of everything and alienating business friends, his wife Ethel (Laura Dern) and the McDonald's brothers, who aren't as ruthless as Kroc. He's like a tamer version of Jordan Belfort from "The Wolf of Wall Street". While this movie shows how the McDonald brothers established the business (and the iconic golden arches), Kroc isn't afraid to take credit, with some help from new lover Joan (Linda Cardinelli).Unlike other biopics, "The Founder" avoids schmaltz and doesn't try to redeem Kroc - who revels in his ruthlessness - for the sake of a happy ending.
orhan Akdeniz The film tells a story of success. But it's not an ordinary story. You do not envy the rich man. You are even disgusting with that man. It reminds me of my social network film.