The Founder

2016 US film by John Lee Hancock
Movie film Q20031748
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Summary

The Founder is a film[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (18,623 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Director: John Lee Hancock[3]
  • Screenwriter: Robert Siegel[4]
  • Composer: Carter Burwell[5]
  • Genre: biographical film[6], drama film[7]
  • Cast member: Michael Keaton[8], Laura Dern[9], Nick Offerman[10], John Carroll Lynch[11], Patrick Wilson[12], B. J. Novak[13], Linda Cardellini[14], Justin Randell Brooke[15], Kate Kneeland[16], Griff Furst[17], Wilbur Fitzgerald[18], David de Vries[19], Andrew Benator[20], Cara Mantella[21]
  • Director of photography: John Schwartzman[22]
  • Original language of film or TV show: English[23]
  • Distribution format: video on demand[24]
  • Review score: 6.9/10[25], 66/100[26], 80%[27]
  • Color: color[28]
  • Country of origin: United States[29]
  • Publication date: April 20, 2017[30], January 20, 2017[31], February 2, 2017[32]
  • Characters: Ray Kroc[33], Richard McDonald[34], Maurice McDonald[35], Joan Kroc[36], Harry J. Sonneborn[37], Fred L. Turner[38], June Martino[39]
  • Distributed by: The Weinstein Company[40], Netflix[41]
  • Narrative location: Arizona[42], California[43]
  • Official website: http://thefounderfilm.com/[44]
  • Filming location: Georgia[45], Atlanta[46]
  • Main subject: McDonald's[47]
  • Described at URL: http://tw.movie.yahoo.com/movieinfo_main.html/id=6658[48]
  • Film editor: Robert Frazen[49]
  • Title: The Founder[50]
  • MPA film rating: PG-13[51]
  • Duration: 115[52]
  • NMHH film rating: Category III[53]
  • Set in period: 1950s[54]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Album[55]

  • Secondary type(s): Soundtrack[56]

  • First release date: 2017-02-10[57]

  • MusicBrainz ID: a8c771ca-5196-4d59-86d6-866af5ebc81f[58]

Why It Matters

The Founder has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[59] It is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[60]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [55] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [56] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [57] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [58] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [59] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [60] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 26d ago · Davidpar · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Related image → McDonalds Museum.jpg
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  2. 6w ago · MsMorale · 2026-08-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  3. 7w ago · Schemathings · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Set in period → 1950s, 20th century
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  4. 9w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-08-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  7. 16w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Publication date → +2017-04-20T00:00:00Z, +2017-01-20T00:00:00Z, +2017-02-02T00:00:00Z
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