If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
A therapist trapped between her daughter’s mysterious illness, marital abandonment, and mounting personal crises spirals through an intensely claustrophobic maternal breakdown.
Overview
A woman's life spirals as she juggles a sick child and an absent husband, seeking solace in therapy.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Breakneck
- Intensity
- Extreme
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Mild
- visceral
- claustrophobic
- distressing
- intense arthouse viewing
- women-centered film night
What critics said
Critics broadly praised Mary Bronstein’s visceral psychological drama, especially Rose Byrne’s magnificent, raw, and intensely committed lead performance.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Linda’s worsening exhaustion, the feeding machine, hotel confinement, and hostile therapy encounters create a near-continuous subjective panic state.
Linda works as a therapist while struggling to sincerely help others and simultaneously losing control of her own family crisis.
Her daughter’s mysterious illness and feeding-tube care dominate Linda’s time, body, work, and emotional resources.
A burst pipe forces Linda and her child into a motel, where confinement and intrusive medical sounds intensify her breakdown.
Films like If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, and why
Uncut Gems
shares escalating anxiety, abrasive momentum, and a pressure-cooker portrait of family crisis
The Worst Person in the World
shares a woman-centered nervous breakdown rendered with dark humor and heightened emotional intensity
We Need to Talk About Kevin
shares claustrophobic domestic distress, maternal strain, and psychologically raw performance-driven drama
Safe
shares surreal discomfort, maternal anxiety, and an unsettling breakdown of everyday reality
Movie Details
- Director
- Mary Bronstein
- Release Date
- 2025-10-10
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Rating
- 6.3 / 10 (428)
Cast
- Rose Byrne
- Conan O'Brien
- A$AP Rocky
- Danielle Macdonald
- Delaney Quinn
- Mary Bronstein
- Ivy Wolk
- Mark Stolzenberg
- Manu Narayan
- Christian Slater
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, FlixFling
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is If I Had Legs I'd Kick You about?
- A therapist trapped between her daughter’s mysterious illness, marital abandonment, and mounting personal crises spirals through an intensely claustrophobic maternal breakdown.
- What is If I Had Legs I'd Kick You like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of If I Had Legs I'd Kick You as breakneck, its intensity as extreme and its storytelling as layered.
- Is If I Had Legs I'd Kick You violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in If I Had Legs I'd Kick You as mild.
- What did critics think of If I Had Legs I'd Kick You?
- Critics broadly praised Mary Bronstein’s visceral psychological drama, especially Rose Byrne’s magnificent, raw, and intensely committed lead performance.
- Which films are like If I Had Legs I'd Kick You?
- Films with a similar feel include Uncut Gems, The Worst Person in the World, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and Safe.
- How long is If I Had Legs I'd Kick You?
- If I Had Legs I'd Kick You runs 113 minutes.
- Where can I watch If I Had Legs I'd Kick You?
- In United States, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You streams on HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max.
