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\n\tDerek Cianfrance has taken his time to make movies he wants to make. It paid off with 2010\u2019s Blue Valentine, 2012\u2019s The Place Beyond the Pines, and 2017\u2019s The Light Between the Oceans. In 2020, he made the Emmy-winning HBO limited series I Know This Much Is True with Mark Ruffalo, and though he ended up not directing Sound of Metal he did receive an Oscar nomination<\/a> for co-writing the screenplay. <\/p>\n \n\tBut with his latest, Roofman, he headed into a different area \u2014 a little lighter, a little more of the type of the movies he always loved like those of Cameron Crowe, Hal Ashby and Frank Capra, and got it produced with a major studio, Paramount.<\/p>\n \n\tCianfrance was told movies like this aren\u2019t made anymore, but I would say he should be thanked because this one for me is one of the year\u2019s best. It is an incredible true story of Jeffrey Manchester, an inventive criminal who robbed 45 McDonalds restaurants by drilling a hole in the roof after closing. He finally got caught and sent to prison for 45 years but cleverly escaped and wound up living in a Toys \u201cR\u201d Us store by night, and later ingratiating himself to the small North Carolina community and church where he also found romance. Now he is back in prison and spoke to Cianfrance hundreds of times to tell his story his way.<\/p>\n