"The key to being a good criminal, according to LaKeith Stanfield's army veteran-turned-passport-forger Steve, is that you have to be cool and calculating. "You've got the calculating part down," he tells Channing Tatum's Jeffrey Manchester, "but...you're too goofy." That, in a nutshell, is Derek Cianfrance's approach to Roofman, a movie based on a true story so absurd it must be seen to be believed."
"But Jeffrey makes a funny little home for himself: He builds himself a small nest made of inflatable furniture and Spider-Man bedding behind the wall of a display that no one ever checks, he hooks up some baby monitors around the store to keep himself entertained, and he feeds himself on a steady supply of Peanut M&Ms. But despite the orders of his friend and fellow vet Steve, Jeffrey does the one thing he shouldn't: he gets involved."
Roofman follows Jeffrey Manchester, a former United States Army Reserve non-commissioned officer who earned the nickname Roofman by robbing McDonald's and occasional Burger King branches via their roofs. Arrested at his young daughter's birthday, he engineers a patient escape and hides in a nearby Toys R Us. He fashions a covert living space from inflatable furniture and Spider-Man bedding, monitors the store with baby monitors, and subsists on Peanut M&Ms. Despite warnings from his veteran friend Steve, he becomes emotionally entangled with Leigh Wainscott, a single mother and Toys R Us employee, triggering increasingly strange and poignant consequences.
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