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THE FOUNDER (2016)
Starring Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Caroll Lynch, Laura Dern, Linda Cardellini, Patrick Wilson and B.j. Novak. Directed by John Lee Hancock.
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. Impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food at their San Bernardino hamburger stand and the crowds of patrons it attracted, Kroc immediately saw franchise potential and manoeuvred himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire. And thus McDonald’s was born.
Starring Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Caroll Lynch, Laura Dern, Linda Cardellini, Patrick Wilson and B.j. Novak. Directed by John Lee Hancock.
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. Impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food at their San Bernardino hamburger stand and the crowds of patrons it attracted, Kroc immediately saw franchise potential and manoeuvred himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire. And thus McDonald’s was born.
REVIEWS The Founder - A woefully misdirected missed opportunity