Review The Founder [2016] | poetslandscape

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The Founder [2016] (directed by using way of Jack Lee Hancock, screenplay via manner of Robert Siegal) tells the compelling (!) if now not continually pretty tale of the origins of clearly the most essential rapid-food franchise agency, McDonald's, in statistics.

While as yet listening to fantastically _no buzz_ for this film, I'd sincerely say that Michael Keaton certainly DESERVES OSCAR CONSIDERATION for his function as Ray Kroc [wikip] [IMDb] the handiest-time traveling huckster / salesman from Oak Park, Arlington Heights, Des Plaines, Illinois (suburban Chicago) who grew to end up the

How'd he do it?  He'd say ... persistence.  And one would have to say, a definite level of _meanness_, there were _definitely_ "some eggs" that were "cracked" to make _this_ "Egg McMuffin..."

But honestly, what a(n American) story!  Call it this year's rendition of The Master [2014] (a film inspired by the life of Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard) or Joy [2015] (a film about QVC / Home Shopping Network sensation Joy Mongano inventor of the "the self-wringing mop" ;-).  It's a story that's both trivial / _banal_ AND ... compelling / _worth telling_ ...

Excellent film!

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