The Founder (2016)

He took someone else's idea and America ate it up.

TMDb 7.111/24/2016•1h 55m

DramaHistory

IMDb

Original Title

The Founder

Status

Released

Production Companies

Speedie DistributionFilmNation EntertainmentFaliro House ProductionsThe CombineThe Weinstein Company

Original Language

Budget

$15,000,000

Revenue

$24,121,245

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.