PLOT
Jimmy Logan, a blue collar labourer whose once promising football career was ruined by injury that left him with a permanent limp, is laid off from his construction job at the Charlotte Motor Speedway due to liability issues. While visiting his ex-wife Bobbi Joe to pick up their daughter for a beauty pageant, he learns that Bobbi and her new husband, a wealthy car dealership owner, intend to move to Lynchburg, making it even harder for him to visit.
Angry, Jimmy goes to a bar run by his brother Clyde, an Iraq war veteran who on account of losing part of his left arm, is obligated to wear a prosthetic hand. Max Chilblain, a pretentious British Businessman, and his friends arrive and insult Clyde before getting in a fight with Jimmy, leading to the former setting fire to their car with a molotov cocktail. On his way out, Jimmy yells "cauliflower",which Clyde recognizes as an old code from when they used to commit crimes as young boys. The next day, Jimmy explains his plan: Using his knowledge of the speedway's new pneumatic system for moving money, the two will access the system during an upcoming car show, when security is lax, and siphon off the money.
Clyde agrees to the plan and he and Jimmy recruit Joe Bang, a convicted safecracker, Joe's brothers Sam and Fish, and their own sister Mellie. As Joe insists that he be returned to prison as soon as the heist is complete, Clyde gets himself incarcerated. Mellie, Sam and Fish infest the speedway's main vault with cockroaches, forcing it to be cleaned and allowing them to measure it. While gathering supplies, Jimmy meets Sylvia, a travelling physician who runs a mobile clinic in desperate need of donations. He learns that due to construction being finished ahead of schedule, his original plan will not work, forcing him to change the timing of the heist to instead occur during the upcoming Coca -Cola 600 race on Memorial Day weekend.
As part of their plan, Joe and Clyde arrange for the prison's inmates to stage a riot, allowing them to escape through the the infirmary and hide under a delivery truck. They are picked up by Mellie in a stolen sports car, and taken to the speedway, while Sam and Fish sabotage the electrical grid, forcing all vendors to switch to cash. Using improvised explosive devices, Joe blasts open the main pneumatic pipe and begins vacuuming up the money. The staff notices and security guards are dispatched to investigate, but a diversion set up by Jimmy prevents them from discovering the heist. Complications arise, however, when Clyde loses his hand during the vacuuming and he and Joe are spotted by Chilblain and his sponsored NASCAR driver Dayton white while making their way back to prison. Nevertheless , the job is a complete success, and Jimmy makes it to his daughter's pageant just as she performs a rendition of his favorite song, "Take Me Home, Country Roads". Feeling guilty, Jimmy ditches his truck with the money at a gas station and alerts the police so they can retrieve it.
In the aftermath,FBI agent Sarah Grayson is assigned to investigate the heist, but due to the collective incompetence of the prison authorities, Chilblain (him and Dayton have a falling out when Dayton crashes in the race), and the speedway administratio , the case is quickly closed, Joe is released and returns to his old home, where he eventually finds part of the money under his yard. It is then revealed that, during the heist , Jimmy purposely separated several bags from the rest of the loot and divided them between his associates and friends, while leaving the rest to throw off any potential investigations. Now working as a Lowe's salesman, Jimmy happily reunites with his family at Clyde's bar, where they and the rest of the gang share drinks. Clyde doesn't recognize one of the participants, who turns out to be Grayson continuing her investigation undercover.
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