Anchor Bay Home Entertainment has announced that it will release on Blu-ray John Lee Hancock's film The Founder (2016), starring Michael Keaton, Linda Cardellini, Patrick Wilson, Nick Offerman, and Laura Dern. The release will be available for purchase on April 18.
Synopsis: Directed by John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side), The Founder features the true story of how Ray Kroc (Keaton), a struggling 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. Writer Robert Siegel (The Wrestler) details how Kroc maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire. The film also stars Laura Dern as Ray Kroc's first wife Ethel, John Carroll Lynch as Mac McDonald and Nick Offerman as Dick McDonald.