The Founder
He took someone else's idea and America ate it up.
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.
- Director
- John Lee Hancock
- Worldwide
- $24M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
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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.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
The Founder returned 1.6× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $15M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $24M
- Release date
- Nov 24, 2016
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- MPAA rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- Greece, United States of America
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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