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.
Genres
Drama, History
Studio
Speedie Distribution
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Founder performed
Budget
$15.0M
Worldwide Gross
$24.1M
Gross Profit
$9.1M
Return
1.6× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$3M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
Where to Watch
Cast
Ray Kroc
Michael Keaton
Ray Kroc
Dick McDonald
Nick Offerman
Dick McDonald
Mac McDonald
John Carroll Lynch
Mac McDonald
Joan Smith
Linda Cardellini
Joan Smith
Harry J. Sonneborn
B.J. Novak
Harry J. Sonneborn
Ethel Kroc
Laura Dern
Ethel Kroc
Fred Turner
Justin Randell Brooke
Fred Turner
June Martino
Kate Kneeland
June Martino
Rollie Smith
Patrick Wilson
Rollie Smith
Jim Zien
Griff Furst
Jim Zien
Jerry Cullen
Wilbur Fitzgerald
Jerry Cullen
Jack Horford
David de Vries
Jack Horford
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