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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

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• Drama
• Thriller

• 2025
• Mary Bronstein
• 113 mins
• 15

Summary

Psychological drama starring Rose Byrne. Linda is a psychotherapist and mother who tends to the needs of her sick daughter while her husband works away from home. When a huge hole appears in the ceiling of their house, Linda is forced to move with her child into a motel. Overwhelmed by family and workplace crises, Linda begins to behave recklessly as she plummets into a spiral of despair.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Emma Simmonds

Motherhood is a mountain to be exhaustingly climbed in this scathing, innovative comedy drama from American writer/director Mary Bronstein (who also pops up to play a patronising paediatrician). Rose Byrne is sensational as Linda, a woman whose life, and ceiling, is tumbling down around her. She's grappling with the demands of her daughter (a largely unseen Delaney Quinn) whom she feeds via a gastric tube, while trying to maintain her career as a psychotherapist. Her ship-captain husband Charles (voiced by Christian Slater) is away with work, and her own therapist (Conan O'Brien) seems to despise her. Things get really ugly when Linda is forced to move herself and her daughter into a motel (run by A$AP Rocky's James) and she starts behaving recklessly, while a client's crisis touches a nerve. Bronstein confronts the depth of Linda's depression and the judgements she faces in imaginative, interrogatory style, punctuating her film with sometimes wildly funny farce. A never-better Byrne, deservedly Oscar-nominated, thrives under the film's intense focus, juggling comedy and tragedy with aplomb.

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6.6/10

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Cast

rolenameLindaRose ByrneTherapistConan O'BrienJamesA$ap Rocky CarolineDanielle MacdonaldChildDelaney QuinnCharlesChristian Slater

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rolenameDirectorMary Bronstein

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Theatrical distributor

Picturehouse

Released on

2026-02-20

Languages

English

Guidance

Violence, swearing, drug abuse

Formats

Colour

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