The Founder (2016)

73

IMDb 1712

7.2

/177619/

Trakt

75

/14266/

TMDb

71

/4695/

Letterboxd

3.4

/231073/

Tomatoes

81

/248/

Audience

82

/32943/

Metacritic

66

/47/

RogerEbert

3.0

Runtime: 115 min.

Status: Released

Certification: PG-13

Parental Guide: 13+

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.

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Keywords: tmdb.greed, tmdb.biography, tmdb.family-business, tmdb.salesman, tmdb.fast-food, tmdb.franchise, tmdb.1950s + 58 more, tmdb.burger, mdblist.certified-fresh, tmdb.based-on-true-story, tmdb.ambition, mdblist.has-trailer, imdb.mcdonald-s-restaurant, imdb.swindle, imdb.burger, imdb.fast-food-restaurant, imdb.franchising, imdb.fast-food, imdb.based-on-true-story, imdb.milkshake, imdb.milkshake-mixer, imdb.food-services-industry, imdb.real-estate-business, imdb.ambition, imdb.1950s, imdb.business-executive, imdb.sell-out, imdb.alcoholic, imdb.animal-abuse, imdb.traveling-salesman, imdb.assembly-line, imdb.two-word-title, imdb.automation, imdb.flask, imdb.argument, imdb.huckster, imdb.selling, imdb.negotiation, imdb.flirting, imdb.brother-brother-relationship, imdb.mortgage, imdb.reference-to-ronald-reagan, imdb.archive-footage, imdb.neon, imdb.third-wife, imdb.phone-booth, imdb.pay-phone, imdb.cigarette-smoking, imdb.speech-rehearsal, imdb.restaurant, imdb.cheating, imdb.restaurant-owner, imdb.french-fries, imdb.lollipop, imdb.idle-rich, imdb.restaurant-manager, imdb.the-american-dream, imdb.eating, imdb.processed-food, imdb.american-culture, imdb.capitalist, imdb.czech-american, tmdb.corporate-greed, tmdb.corporate-power, tmdb.mcdonald-s

Production companies: Speedie Distribution, FilmNation Entertainment, Faliro House Productions, The Combine, The Weinstein Company

The Founder (2016)

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.

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Keywords: tmdb.greed, tmdb.biography, tmdb.family-business, tmdb.salesman, tmdb.fast-food, tmdb.franchise, tmdb.1950s + 58 more, tmdb.burger, mdblist.certified-fresh, tmdb.based-on-true-story, tmdb.ambition, mdblist.has-trailer, imdb.mcdonald-s-restaurant, imdb.swindle, imdb.burger, imdb.fast-food-restaurant, imdb.franchising, imdb.fast-food, imdb.based-on-true-story, imdb.milkshake, imdb.milkshake-mixer, imdb.food-services-industry, imdb.real-estate-business, imdb.ambition, imdb.1950s, imdb.business-executive, imdb.sell-out, imdb.alcoholic, imdb.animal-abuse, imdb.traveling-salesman, imdb.assembly-line, imdb.two-word-title, imdb.automation, imdb.flask, imdb.argument, imdb.huckster, imdb.selling, imdb.negotiation, imdb.flirting, imdb.brother-brother-relationship, imdb.mortgage, imdb.reference-to-ronald-reagan, imdb.archive-footage, imdb.neon, imdb.third-wife, imdb.phone-booth, imdb.pay-phone, imdb.cigarette-smoking, imdb.speech-rehearsal, imdb.restaurant, imdb.cheating, imdb.restaurant-owner, imdb.french-fries, imdb.lollipop, imdb.idle-rich, imdb.restaurant-manager, imdb.the-american-dream, imdb.eating, imdb.processed-food, imdb.american-culture, imdb.capitalist, imdb.czech-american, tmdb.corporate-greed, tmdb.corporate-power, tmdb.mcdonald-s