Channing Tatum plays Jeffrey Manchester, a onetime soldier who was sentenced to 45 years in prison for robbing several McDonald’s restaurants, only to escape in 2004 in the hopes of starting a new life. Manchester managed to live for six months, undetected, in a Charlotte, N.C., Toys"R"Us store. He cannily figured out ways to come and go from his makeshift lair, and even began dating a local single mom, Leigh Wainscott, played in the film by Kirsten Dunst. Roofman—the movie’s title comes from the nickname given to Manchester, who’d gained entrance to the establishments he’d robbed by drilling through their roofs—sees the outlandish humor in Manchester’s survival tactics, which include maintaining a steady diet of baby food and peanut M&Ms, the only victuals he could scrounge up within the walls of his new de facto prison. And his courtship of Leigh, whom he meets at a local church, has a wholesome sweetness. Manchester makes gifts of (stolen) toys and video games to her kids, and he treats her with a kind of goofy, homespun gallantry.