The Founder (2017)Movies

Middle AmericaMcDonald's. Is. Family The new movie The Founder is the story of a thrice-married businessman who wheeled and dealed and got rich by lying and cheating and breaking his word to his partners. Sound familiar? It did to critics like The New Yorker’s Anthony Lane, as well as to a reviewer for The Economist, who called it “a Trumpian biopic.” Although the screenplay was written well before Trump announced he was running for president, director John Lee Hancock said the thought had crossed his mind, while directing, “There’s somebody else I’ve seen do this!” The critique that Anthony Lane makes of both McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc (Michael Keating) and President Donald Trump as “mean bastard[s]” is only one side...