A real-life robber, a musical and 'Tron: Ares' — all in theaters this weekend
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A musical kiss, a mom-centered thrill ride, an AI battle, a #MeToo drama, a sexy real-life thief, and a hapless 20-something struggling on London's streets. Lots happening this week at your local cinema.
Roofman
In theaters Friday
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We begin on a roof, with a masked figure — Jeffrey Manchester, played by Channing Tatum — breaking into a McDonald's from above. He hides inside overnight before surprising the staff as they arrive, relieving them of the cash in the safe, and politely ushering them into the restaurant's walk-in refrigerator, making sure they put on coats first. When one guy doesn't have a coat, Manchester offers him his own, closes the door, and calls the cops so he knows they'll be let out quickly. "Nice guy," they all say to reporters afterward, as did real-life staffers at dozens of McDonald's locations around the country before the real roofman was finally captured.
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Manchester was sentenced to 45 years in prison, which seems sufficiently out-of-scale with his crimes that movie audiences won't have much trouble rooting for Tatum's roofman to escape, and then to evade capture (as the real Manchester did) by hiding in a Toys R Us sto
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