Charged with taking his 8 - year - old grandson Billy (a perfectly cast Jackson Nicoll) from Nebraska to live with the boy's deadbeat father in North Carolina, Zisman makes frequent stops to do things like hit on women (at a male strip club at one point), play bingo, shoplift, and generally get in trouble. (film.avclub.com)
He was even running when Del hired him, on a fast dawn jog through whatever small town in Oregon he and his genially deadbeat father (Travis Fimmel) had just moved into. (telegraph.co.uk)
If Jesus were a father he would be considered a deadbeat father by today's standards. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)