The Founder
(2016)
Director:
John Lee Hancock
Writer:
Robert D. Siegel
Cast:
Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch
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.