If his mentally challenged, beer - swilling father Ansel (Thomas Haden Church), who works as a grease monkey at Bob's Muffler Shop, and his sluttish stepmom Sharla, a former stripper who works in a pizza parlor, will help, they can knock off Chris's drunken mom (and Ansel's ex-wife), pay off the debt, split the profits, and have enough
dough left over to improve their lifestyle — maybe get out
of the trailer and move up in the world, to a tract house with aluminum
siding near a 7 - Eleven.