If I Had Legs I'd Kick You premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on Friday to an audience so eager to see if that even some ticketholders were unable to get a seat in the theater. The film stars Rose Byrne as Linda, a mother navigating a psychological breakdown while caring for her sick daughter. The movie shifts the focus, says director Mary Bronstein: "I'd never seen a movie before where a mother is going through a crisis with a child but our energy is not with the child's struggle, it's with the mother's. If you're a caretaker, you shouldn't be bothering with yourself at all. It should all be about the person you're taking care of, right? And that is a particular kind of emotional burnout state that I was really interested in exploring."
Produced by A24, the film was completed in a 27-day shoot. Conan O'Brien, who plays Linda's therapist, commented on his role: "I'm not looking out for movie scripts or anything. But when I got a call from A24 that they wanted me to read something, I'm not stupid." He described the filming as "one of the best experiences of my life, just to be with them and watch them work." He had this to say of Byrne: "I don't know how [she] did that and not check into a hospital afterwards, because I haven't seen any actor, man or woman, sustain that level for an entire movie." A$AP Rocky is also featured as a man Linda encounters at a motel, but he was absent from the premiere due to legal proceedings. Bronstein had made one prior feature, 2008's Yeast. (This story was generated by Newser's AI chatbot. Source: the AP)
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