Roofman: Channing Tatum leads true-crime drama opens Oct 10 2025

Derek Cianfrance’s Roofman, a dramatization of the true story of Jeffrey Manchester, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and opens in U.S. theaters on October 10, 2025. The film stars Channing Tatum as Manchester, a down-on-his-luck Army reservist who turned to robbing fast-food restaurants by climbing in through their roofs, then escaped a long prison sentence and hid inside a Toys R Us while starting a relationship with an employee played by Kirsten Dunst.

The movie traces Manchester’s descent from financial desperation to crime, his capture and prison sentence, a daring escape by hiding under a transport vehicle, and his months-long concealment inside a retail store. While in hiding he fashions a makeshift life among the aisles, attends a local church and develops a romance with a divorced single mother. The film follows how that relationship ultimately contributes to his capture when police use the woman to lure him out, ending his double life and returning him to custody. The credits include photographs and short interviews related to the real events and note Manchester’s long sentence and subsequent failed escape attempts.