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“Roofman” Review: Channing Tatum Delivers a Career-Best Performance in This Amazing True Story
Toronto, ON – Premiering tonight at the Toronto International Film Festival, Roofman is the kind of story you’d dismiss as fiction if it weren’t painstakingly, unbelievably true. Paramount’s new release, directed by Derek cianfrance (Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines), stars Channing Tatum in a career-defining role as Jeffrey Manchester, a man driven to desperate measures by circumstance and a system that failed him.
The film recounts the astonishing true story of Manchester, an Army 82nd Airborne veteran who, after struggling to reintegrate into civilian life in the late 90s, turned to crime to provide for his wife and three children. But this wasn’t just any crime. Manchester became known as “The Roofman
