Two of the 50th Toronto International Film Festival’s highest-profile world premieres, Roofman and Rental Family, were held in back-to-back timeslots on Saturday evening. They’re very different films, but both happen to center on well-meaning professional liars played by actors with high Q scores, and are crowd pleasers to the extent that they will be strong candidates for the fest’s coveted audience award, which often presages Oscar success.
Roofman, which premiered at Roy Thomson Hall, was directed by Derek Cianfrance from a script that he wrote with Kirt Gunn, and is based on a true story. It stars Channing Tatum as Jeffrey Manchester, a divorced father who turns to crime to try to better provide for his ex-wife and three young kids — namely, he robs dozens of McDonald’s stores, as courteously as possible — but ultimately gets busted and incarcerated. Eventually, he manages to escape from prison, but life…
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