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.
The Founder has generally received positive reviews.
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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 17 Jan 2017
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The Founder was released in 2016 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 873 reviews, giving The Founder (2016) an average rating of 73%.
Overall, cinema-goers marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 78%, compared to film critics, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 72%.
With a score of 73%, The Founder is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2016, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 2016 with similar scores include films like The Conjuring 2, Silence and Nocturnal Animals.
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