Channing Tatum’s new heartfelt crime caper “Roofman” — which dropped in October — has helped to mend relationships for a real-life conman.

Director Derek Cianfrance — who spent years speaking with crook Jeffrey Manchester,

who robbed a number of McDonald’s before escaping prison and living in a Toys R’ Us while on the lam — revealed during a recent Paramount screening that the film has had a profound impact on Manchester’s fractured family.

“In the time since the movie has come out in the last month, just two days ago, I spoke with his daughter for about two hours,” Cianfrance revealed. “She’s been in contact, she’s talked to Jeff six times . . . So in some ways, the movie has had this effect of connecting them again, you know, because he hadn’t talked to her for, I think, 15 years.”

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