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The Founder

The Founder

2016 · Movie · 1h 55m · PG-13

Streaming on Netflix.

Synopsis

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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SourceRatingWeight
IMDb7.2/1042%
Rotten Tomatoes80%21%
Metacritic66/10021%
TMDB7.2/105,604 votes16%
Balasaur Score72100%

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