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Title: The Founder
Year: 2016
Runtime: 115 minutes
Votes: 43264
Rating: 7.2/10
Language: English
Country: USA
All Genres: Biography, Drama, History
Plot Outline: The story of Ray Kroc,
a salesman who turned two brothers' innovative fast food eatery,
McDonald's, into one of the biggest restaurant businesses in the world
with a combination of ambition, persistence, and ruthlessness.
Tagline: He took someone else's idea and America ate it up.
Director: John Lee Hancock
Writing By: Robert D. Siegel,
Produced By: Glen Basner,Holly Brown,Alison Cohen,Parry Creedon,David Glasser,David S. Greathouse,Don Handfield,William D. Johnson,Christos V. Konstantakopoulos,Karen Lunder,Jeremy Renner,Aaron Ryder,Michael Sledd,Bob Weinstein,Harvey Weinstein,
Music: Carter Burwell
Plot:
1954. Having worked as a salesman most of his adult life, Ray Kroc
has been a hustler in most senses of the word. That hustling has made
him the target of derision among certain circles for peddling what have
ended up being more novelty or faddish than useful products, but it has
also placed more than a comfortable roof in Arlington Heights, Illinois
over his and his wife Ethel's heads. Ethel, however, wishes that he
placed as much effort into being at home with her than he is in selling,
his current job of peddling five-spindle milkshake makers for Prince
Castle which has him constantly on the road going from one drive-in
restaurant to another. It is because of the beefs he has with the whole
drive-in experience (bad food, bad service) in constantly eating at such
establishments while on the road that he becomes enthralled with the
concept of McDonald's Restaurant in San Bernardino, California, it owned
and operated by brothers Richard McDonald and Maurice McDonald
- Dick and Mac. Unlike most of Ray's customers who will only require
one five-spindle milkshake maker at any given time, the McDonald
brothers end up purchasing eight machines for their single restaurant.
Primarily on Dick's initiative, the brothers have redesigned the whole
concept of the drive-in restaurant to focus on quality food through a
smaller menu of only the most popular items (hamburgers, fries, sodas),
consistency in product so that customers know what to expect from time
to time, change in the target market from lounging teenagers to
families, and perhaps most importantly speed in having any order ready
within seconds, many of these goals achievable through assembly line
styled production. They had tried franchising previously, but failed in
that they lost control over many of those aspects which made their San
Bernardino restaurant successful. Despite believing Ray a bit off kilter
(in other words, crazy), the McDonald brothers somewhat hesitantly
enter into a contract with him to be their head of franchising. Ray's
experience in the job is not without its problems, especially as his
franchisees seem to be making more money than he is, he who is only
breaking even. He is not averse to advancing ideas provided to him to
get ahead - original ideas which are not his forte - he seeing the
brothers as his biggest problem in they thinking small. These
differences lead to a standoff between Ray and the brothers, the former
who has a different goal for "his" business in profit and stoking his
own ego seemingly his main priorities.
- Written by
Huggo
The story of Ray Kroc, a
salesman who turned two brothers' innovative fast food eatery,
McDonald's, into one of the biggest restaurant businesses in the world
with a combination of ambition, persistence, and ruthlessness.
- Written by
Kenneth Chisholm
Cast:
Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc
Nick Offerman as Dick McDonald
John Carroll Lynch as Mac McDonald
Linda Cardellini as Joan Smith
B.J. Novak as Harry J. Sonneborn
Laura Dern as Ethel Kroc
Justin Randell Brooke as Fred Turner
Kate Kneeland as June Martino
Patrick Wilson as Rollie Smith
Griff Furst as Jim Zien
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