The Founder is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by John Lee Hancock and written by Robert Siegel. The film stars Michael Keaton as McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc and Nick Offerman as Kroc’s business partner, Dick McDonald. The film also stars John Carroll Lynch, Laura Dern, and B. J. Novak.

The film tells the story of how Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, meets the McDonald brothers, Dick and Mac, who have a small restaurant in San Bernardino, California. Kroc is impressed by the brothers’ fast food concept and sees franchise potential. He slowly takes over the brothers’ business, eventually …