The Founder
Crit
Did I ever tell you about when I was friends with Ray Kroc's son-in-law's brother, who, because the son-in-law was general manager of Kroc's San Diego Padres, had a pass into any National League ballpark, but never used it because he didn't like baseball? Now that's tragedy.
The ironic title refers to Kroc's usurpation of everything McDonald's from the original McDonald brothers who founded the not-yet-franchise in San Bernardino before signing a contract with a milkshake machine salesman.
The film is a good piece of storytelling, but it wouldn't fly without a spittingly committed performance by Michael Keaton. Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch are also terrific as the principled-thus-befuddled brothers.
Trailers
- Bitter Harvest--Ukraine, 1932, and Stalin coming. And we think we have it bad.
- Wilson--No, not the volleyball, the Daniel Clowes graphic novel.
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