[This story contains mild spoilers for the true story that serves as the basis for Roofman .]

For Derek Cianfrance fans, the interminable wait for his fifth feature film is finally over.

Roofman , which opens Oct. 10 in movie theaters nationwide, is the writer-director’s first film since 2016’s The Light Between Oceans . The Colorado native may have had a near-decade-long drought on the big screen, but he’s still been highly productive in the meantime. First and foremost, it was important to him to be present for his two kids during their adolescence. So when he wasn’t writing and developing narrative projects from home, he would butter his bread with commercials. His spots for Nike Golf, Powerade and Squarespace even landed him a 2017 DGA award for outstanding directorial a

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