PG-13The Founder

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IMDB (179,408 votes)

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500M
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Play Time: 115 mins
Drama, History
The Founder

Overview:
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.

Status: Released (2016-11-24)
Awards:1 win & 5 nominations
BoxOffice:$12,786,053
Screen:Robert Siegel
Productions: Speedie Distribution, FilmNation Entertainment, Faliro House Productions, The Combine, The Weinstein Company
Production Countries: Greece, United States of America
Spoken Languages: English
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Reviews

Reno

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**Veni, vidi, vici!** I anticipated another inspiring biopic about a man who built an empire. That's partially true, because this was inspired by the right kind of wrong thing. I mean it was not actually about the McDonalds' story, the McDonald brothers, but the fast food chain Mc ....

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Filipe Manuel Neto

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**A decent film, although the story told is substantially stilted and made more tense than it actually was.** We all know that the business world is not for boy scouts. As the film's protagonist himself assumes, you have to be prepared for the toughness of competitors and moves th ....

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The Movie Mob

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**Overall : A brilliant telling of a bleak story that left a disappointing flavor in my soul.** I remember the plaque in our McDonalds growing up about its founder, Ray Kroc, but this movie tells a much different story. Suddenly, I am questioning whether or not I should let my two ....

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