Description

Tiny” Willits and Ethan Banks spend their free time at Boo’s Tavern in the working-class community of Downs Moor. Boo’s co-owner is a loudmouth named Gus “Hitch” Bigwood. Hitch has a limp due to a forklift accident 10 years earlier, which got him a massive settlement, a large part of which he spent on an antique automobile. Unbeknownst to Ethan and Tiny, Hitch has been faking his limp for the past decade to avoid paying back the insurance company for his fraudulent claim.

Ethan and Tiny get laid off from the factory and are now desperate. To add insult to injury, Tiny has recently lost his girlfriend, Trisha, to the high-school principal, Rick, and Ethan is getting hounded by debt collectors. Hitch, in the meantime, has grown weary of faking his limp. Trying to gather enough money to leave Downs Moor and live anonymously, Hitch and Terry Edwards (the town’s ineffectual sheriff) hatch a scheme to “fake-steal” Hitch’s antique automobile and collect the trumped-up insurance payoff.

When Ethan and Tiny find out Hitch is faking his limp, he is forced to let them in on the plans. The plan goes perfectly and all are satisfied with the results… until Tiny and Ethan find out Hitch lied about the amount of the payoff.”