Not exact matches
Here's the premise: My
family threw a
white trash / redneck party.
His
white -
trash family (Thomas Haden Church as his dad, Gina Gershon as his father's new wife and Juno Temple as his little sister) eagerly agree.
Find reason there for the caricatured
white trash pastiches serving as Maggie's
family (and additional pathos in Maggie's need for a father figure), the boxing - trainer archetype, the old fighter Scrap (blind in one eye and living in a tiny room at the gym), the evil Drago Eastern Bloc nemesis, and the rags - to - riches sports story into noble - cripple tropes that worked in 1962 with Requiem for a Heavyweight.
Ricky stops taking the school bus in his small town in Maine, first to evade the bullies (who call his
family «
white trash») and then gradually to improve his running speed and beat the bus home.
The bottom half feels like it came from
white trash branch of the
family — cheaper - feeling, toy - like plastic (in black or red) that seems more appropriate on a carrier freebie.