Jack and I quite enjoyed this based-on-a-true-story about a North Carolina thief who breaks into stores through their roofs after hours and later has to hide out in a Toys R Us in 2004. Channing Tatum is charming (name change?) in the title role, and Kirsten Dunst is also adorable as his love interest in the second act. Support comes from Peter Dinklage as the detestable store manager and Lakeith Stanfield and Juno Temple as the roofman's friends.
Director Derek Cianfrance spent many hours interviewing the actual roofman Jeffrey Manchester to contribute to the script Cianfrance co-wrote with Kirt Gunn.
The music by Christopher Bear, available on Apple Music, swings between soothing and mildly unsettling.
Tatum was last blogged for Fly Me to the Moon, Dunst for The Power of the Dog, Dinklage for Wicked, Stanfield for Judas and the Black Messiah, Temple for Wonder Wheel (three years before her 34 episodes of Ted Lasso as Keely), Cianfrance for Sound of Metal, and Bear for Past Lives. This is the second feature for Gunn, sixteen years after his first.
28 producers is no longer enough to land a spot on my Producers Plethora Prize list, but I thought I'd mention the number anyway. Rotten Tomatoes' critics and audiences aren't raising the ceiling at 86 and 85% averages, but they're still pretty high. We rented it on November 20.
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