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The Founder
Drama, History
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to sharply observed true-business dramas about ambition, ethical compromise, and the ruthless mechanics of building an empire.
- Tone
- tense, bleak, cerebral
- Payoff
- reflection, vindication
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- ambition, entrepreneurship, corporate power, betrayal, moral compromise
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century America, roadside diners and expanding suburban commerce
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