Paramount has released the official trailer for Roofman, a darkly comedic and suspense-laced true crime drama directed by Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines). Based on the unbelievable real-life exploits of Jeffrey Manchester, the film stars Channing Tatum as the charming yet troubled ex-Army Ranger who made headlines by robbing McDonald’s restaurants via their rooftops and hiding out for months in a Toys “R” Us undetected.
The trailer opens with an aerial shot of suburban Americana, underscored by a sly voiceover that hints at Jeffrey’s double life. After a string of inventive robberies, he lands behind bars—only to escape and take up residence inside a toy store, navigating its air ducts and surveillance systems like a suburban phantom. But his criminal ingenuity takes an emotional turn when he meets Leigh (Kirsten Dunst), a single mother whose warmth draws him toward a second chance at life—one complicated by the lies he must keep buried.
As Jeffrey’s world begins to unravel, Roofman plays with tonal shifts: part cat-and-mouse thriller, part offbeat romance, and part character study of a man trapped between reinvention and recapture. The film’s visual style blends 2000s mall culture and late-capitalist malaise with Derek Cianfrance’s signature intimacy—lingering close-ups, handheld tension, and a melancholy hue that sharpens the surrealism of it all.
Rounding out the cast are Shea Whigham as the obsessive detective on Manchester’s trail, and young newcomer Will Riggins as Leigh’s son, who slowly uncovers the truth about his mother’s new boyfriend. With a screenplay that layers suspense with emotional resonance, Roofman offers a haunting look at loneliness, reinvention, and the absurdities of the American Dream.
Premiering August 29 in select theaters before expanding nationwide through Paramount Pictures.
