The Founder

Release Date: Wednesday, December 7, 2016 Los Angeles Friday, January 20, 2017 Nationwide

John Carroll Lynch, Jeremy Renner, Patrick Wilson, Michael Keaton, Laura Dern, Linda Cardellini, John Lee Hancock, Nick Offerman, B.J. Novak, Aaron Ryder, Don Handfield, Karen Lunder, Robert Siegel, Steve Coulter, Catherine Dyer, Mike Pniewski, Kimberly Battista

The true story of how Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California.

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The true story of how Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California.

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Tells the true story of how Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), 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.
Cited as official plot version from weinsteinco.com
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The film's director John Lee Hancock last directed Mr. Harrigan’s Phone and The Little Things. The film's writer Robert Siegel last wrote Cruise and Turbo.

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Producers
Don Handfield
Karen Lunder
Jeremy Renner
Aaron Ryder

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MPA Rating
PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned for brief strong language
Runtime
N/A
Tagline
He took someone else’s idea and America ate it up.
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Language
English

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  • Laura Dern will play Ethel Kroc, Kroc’s first wife who suffers through his business schemes and whom he neglects.
  • Developed in the vein of The Social Network.

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The film was tagged as Pre-Production. Plans to shoot mid-May 2015 in Atlanta.

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The Founder was released in Los Angeles on Wednesday, December 7, 2016 . Additional information: Oscar Run.



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