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The Social Network
Why this pick
Like The Founder, it turns a familiar corporate origin story into a sleek, unsentimental study of ambition, ownership, and relationships eroded by relentless forward momentum.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2016 1h 55m USA
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In 1954, Ray Kroc is an unsuccessful traveling salesman selling Prince Castle brand milkshake mixers. While he has a supportive wife, Ethel, and has saved enough to live a simple and comfortable life in Arlington Heights, Illinois, Illinois, he craves more. Ray also observes that many of the drive-in restaurants that he tries to sell to are inefficiently run, with a long waiting time for orders and carhops more concerned with avoiding the groping from Greaser (subculture) than getting the orders right. After learning that a drive-in in San Bernardino, California is ordering an unusually large number of milkshake mixers, Ray drives to California to see it. What he finds is McDonald's—a highly popular walk-up restaurant with fast service, high-quality food, disposable packaging, and a family-friendly atmosphere.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Randall Taylor
Owner (Ed's Drive-In)
Andrew Benator
Leonard Rosenblatt
Wilbur Fitzgerald
Jerry Cullen
Griff Furst
Jim Zien
B.J. Novak
Harry Sonneborn
Linda Cardellini
Joan Smith
Laura Dern
Ethel Kroc
Patrick Wilson
Rollie Smith