
Saving Mr. Banks(2013)
Author P.L. Travers looks back on her childhood while reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.


“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.

Michael Keaton
Ray Kroc

Nick Offerman
Dick McDonald

John Carroll Lynch
Mac McDonald

Linda Cardellini
Joan Smith

B. J. Novak
Harry J. Sonneborn

Laura Dern
Ethel Kroc

Justin Randell Brooke
Fred Turner

Kate Kneeland
June Martino

Patrick Wilson
Rollie Smith

Griff Furst
Jim Zien
The Founder is a drama, history film released in 2016 exploring themes of greed, ambition, biography, family business , based on true story, salesman. Directed by John Lee Hancock, it stars Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch. 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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