It\'s 1959 and Harry \'Rabbit\' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere.
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With no way to fix things, he resolves to flee from his family and his home in Pennsylvania, beginning a thousand-mile journey that he hopes will free him from his mediocre life.
At twenty-six he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuck with a fragile, alcoholic wife, a house full of overflowing ashtrays and discarded glasses, a young son and a futile job.
It\'s 1959 and Harry \'Rabbit\' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere