Holy **** that is ****ing perfect. Grayson Allen is the blue-collar Ted Cruz with an alcoholic father and overprotective mother who works part-time at Joann's Crafts. He shares a bed with his sister and they eat generic-brand rice puffs and drink frozen orange juice for breakfast before he takes his sister to the bus stop and makes sure her dress isn't too wrinkled and the other boys don't make fun of her. When they do, he pulls out his pocket knife and challenges them to a fight, thinks he's got the jump on one of them, but gets pummeled from behind by the other kids and gets stomped. On his walk back home in the late afternoon, jeans are ripped, shirt is dirty and spotted from a nosebleed, he comes across a discarded DVD of The Foot-Fist Way and brings it home to watch on the family's computer as he heats up a microwave burrito with sprinkles of orange cheese on top. He brings his plate in front of the computer, presses play on Windows Media Player, and the disc whirs to life, opening up the menu for the movie. He selects "Begin Movie," and his little sister pushes a bar stool behind him to watch over his shoulder. As the movie begins to unfold, Grayson cracks a tiny smile, then winces -- the fat lip is pulsing with pain from the paneling he got from the boys earlier. As he watches, he learns the secret to self-defense is the low blow. Nut punches, leg trips, even a good goosing; all these tricks he will add to his repertoire and defeat those nasty boys once and for all.