Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- Greece, United States
The story
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.
- greed
- ambition
- biography
- family business
- based on true story
- salesman
- corporate greed
- fast food
- corporate power
- 1950s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
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
- Wilbur Fitzgerald — Jerry Cullen
- David de Vries — Jack Horford
- Andrew Benator — Leonard Rosenblatt
- Cara Mantella — Myra Rosenblatt
- Randall Taylor — Owner (Ed's Drive-In)
- Directed
- John Lee Hancock
- Written
- Robert D. Siegel
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 5,475 ratings
- Studio
- Speedie Distribution, FilmNation Entertainment, Faliro House Productions, The Combine, The Weinstein Company
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
