10 Great Movies Starring The Office Cast

10. The Founder

B.J Novak’s journey as Ryan Howard is one of the underrated joys of The Office. His character starts as the sanest man in the company, the audience surrogate, and winds up a pretentious, foolish, possibly downright evil bundle of malevolent energy. Novak sells it brilliantly and keeps everything grounded enough to work.

Ryan Howard could only look on with envy at Novak’s character in The Founder. It’s the story of McDonald’s, with Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc, the man who transformed a few family owned restaurants into a global institution. Novak plays Harry Sonneborn, a tuned-in banker who overhears Kroc’s struggles to obtain financial backing and jumps aboard the gravy train.

Like Ryan, he’s shrewd and ambitious; unlike Ryan, he has the nous to pull it off. Sonnenborn and Kroc turn McDonald’s into a franchise business, in the process shafting the brothers who started the company.

The Founder is a fascinating true story with a shark-like turn from the brilliant Keaton. It’s even handed in its depiction of Kroc and McDonald’s - success stories both, but with that comes the trampling of the little guy.