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If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

  Mary Bronstein  |  U.S.

With her life crashing down around her, Linda (Rose Byrne) attempts to navigate her child’s mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist. With the whiplash pace of a thriller, writer-director Mary Bronstein takes audiences into a breathtakingly inventive, unexpectedly funny, yet startlingly relatable fever-dream of parental anxiety. Rose Byrne gives a one-of-a-kind cinematic portrait of ultra-pressurized motherhood.

 English 

 113 minutes

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Film Credits

  •   Sara Murphy, Ryan Zacarias, Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, Eli Bush, Conor Hannon, Richie Doyle
  •   Mary Bronstein
  •   Lucian Johnston
  •   Christopher Messina
  •   Rose Byrne, Conan O’Brien, Danielle Macdonald, Christian Slater, A$AP Rocky
  •   https://a24films.com/films/if-i-had-legs-id-kick-you

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