The Founder
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| Directed by | John Lee Hancock |
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| Written by | Robert D. Siegel |
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| Music by | Carter Burwell |
| Cinematography | John Schwartzman |
| Edited by | Robert Frazen |
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| Distributed by | The Weinstein Company |
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115 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $25 million |
| Box office | $20.7 million |
The Founder is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by John Lee Hancock and written by Robert Siegel. The film stars Michael Keaton as businessman Ray Kroc, and portrays the story of his creation of the McDonald's fast food chain. Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch co-star as McDonald's founders Richard and Maurice McDonald.
The film premiered in the United States at Arclight Hollywood on December 7, 2016, and opened nationwide on January 20, 2017, by The Weinstein Company. It received generally positive reviews from critics and has grossed $20 million worldwide.
Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton) is a traveling salesman selling Prince Castle brand milkshake makers in 1954. While he has a supportive wife, Ethel (Laura Dern), and has saved enough to live a simple comfortable life, he craves more. After learning that a drive-in in San Bernardino is ordering an unusually large number of milkshake makers, Ray drives to California to see it. What he finds is McDonald's—a highly popular walk-up restaurant with fast service, high-quality food, disposable packaging and a family clientele.
Ray meets with the two McDonald brothers, Maurice "Mac" McDonald (John Carroll Lynch) and Richard "Dick" McDonald (Nick Offerman). Ray tours the kitchens and notes the employees' strong work ethic. Dick explains the high-quality food and lightning-fast service are the backbones of their diner. Ray takes the brothers to dinner and is told the origin story of McDonald's. The next day, Ray suggests that the brothers franchise the restaurant and discovers that they had previously attempted to do so only to encounter absentee owners and inconsistent standards which ultimately led to the failure of the endeavor. Ray persists and eventually convinces the brothers to allow him to lead their franchising efforts on the condition that he agree to a contract which requires all changes to receive the McDonald brothers' approval.
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