well then, staying in the same vein,
Construction worker is victim of wrong place, wrong time and ends up being sentenced to hard labor. Escaping he finds success in the construction business as an honest man in Chicago, only to have the past catch up with him.
Well, for more obscure 80's,
Young punk falls in with a group all named after beers in order to find an alien time machine pilfered from Area 51. He never finds his plate of shrimp.