Pumped Up Kicks is a 2012 Teen Drama Thriller film written by Alan Ball and directed by Sam Mendes (who colloborated on American Beauty) based off the 2011 Foster the People song of the same name. It is produced and presented by Paul Verohoven. It concerns a teenage boy classically prejudicely perceived as a stereotypical strange nerd whom desires to kill off the popular bully student body of his school whom have made his life hell. He plans the big killing on Graduation Night but is being fought from it by the beautiful teenage girl of whom he is living with and her younger brother.