If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

11/29/2025

In an age where life’s everyday challenges can test our wits, becoming overwhelmed is a real possibility when they pile up. Just ask Linda (Rose Byrne), a therapist who struggles to sincerely and sensitively assist her troubled patients. But that’s just the start of her problems. She’s also tending to a sick child (Delaney Quinn), the demands of which are considerable, both from the whiny, often-unappreciative youngster and her annoyingly insistent caregivers. To make matters worse, a burst pipe in the ceiling of her apartment has forced mother and child to move into a hotel, a stay that’s become unexpectedly extended due to the lack of repair work by her inattentive landlord. And, through all of these ordeals, Linda is on her own, given that her unfeeling husband (Christian Slater) is fre

3/6/2026

Rose Byrne turns in a terrific performance here, but I found the thrust of the plot to be just a bit too much like a contrived horror movie. She is “Linda”, a therapist whose husband is off piloting a boat and whose un-named daughter has some form of undefined illness that is putting huge pressure on her mother. Then, just to add to her woes, a water leak in their apartment turns her ceiling into a Swiss cheese and forces them to take refuge in a rather basic motel. With the sounds of the child’s feeding machine never far from her dreams, “Linda” heads firmly into the realms of a sleep-deprived and booze-induced nervous breakdown that her own psychiatrist (Conan O’Brien) is unable to help with. She is steadily losing the plot, and so are we. Just what is going on with the woman, and with h

6/15/2026

With truly sincere apologies to Almodóvar, the alternate title to this film could be "Woman in the Throes of a Nervous Breakdown." Mary Bronstein's debut feature captures the absolute insanity of raising a child in this time and place with such visceral precision that watching it feels less like cinema and more like surviving someone else's panic attack in real time. Rose Byrne plays Linda, a therapist whose life is disintegrating on every front: a child with a mysterious illness requiring a feeding tube, an absent husband, a missing person case, and her own increasingly hostile therapy sessions with a colleague played by Conan O'Brien. Byrne is so devastatingly good in this role that it becomes genuinely difficult to tell if she's acting or actually stuck in the situation. Every frayed