Author-director Mary Bronstein and star Rose Byrne dissect the anxieties of motherhood in A24’s upcoming dramedy If I Had Legs I might Kick You.
The movie introduces Linda (Byrne), a mom on the verge of a nervous breakdown. She’s making an attempt to grasp her younger daughter’s (Delaney Quinn) sickness, her husband is at all times touring, and her waterlogged lavatory has collapsed into her bed room. On prime of all that, she’s feuding along with her exasperated therapist (Conan O’Brien), who tells her within the trailer that no, he will not be answering the emails she sends him about her goals.
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If I Had Legs I might Kick You had its world premiere at 2025’s Sundance Movie Competition, to crucial acclaim. The accolades did not cease there, although, because the movie additionally performed 2025’s Berlin Worldwide Movie Competition, the place it was in competitors for the Golden Bear for greatest movie. Byrne took house the Silver Bear for Greatest Main Efficiency. The movie can also be slated to display screen at 2025’s upcoming Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition and New York Movie Competition, positioning it as a potential awards contender.
In his assessment out of Sundance, Mashable author Siddhant Adlakha heaped reward on If I Had Legs I might Kick You, writing that, “it’s a deeply anxiety-inducing work, whose high-strung power is owed to a daring audio-visual method that ought to not be sustainable, however finally ends up hair-raising and hilarious in the long term. The consequence, in a phrase, is superb.”
The movie additionally stars Danielle Macdonald and A$AP Rocky.
If I Had Legs I might Kick You will play on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition and the New York Movie Competition. It hits theaters Oct. 10.
