Rent If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025)
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- Synopsis:
- A struggling mother tries to navigate her daughter's mysterious illness, an absent husband, a missing person, and increasing hostility from her therapist before life comes crashing down around her.
- Actors:
- Rose Byrne, Delaney Quinn, Mary Bronstein, Rakim Mayers, Ivy Wolk, Christian Slater, Mark Stolzenberg, Conan O'Brien, Manu Narayan, Danielle Macdonald, Ella Beatty, Eva Kornet, Helen Hong, Daniel Zolghadri, Josh Pais, Ronald Bronstein, Laurence Blum, Lark White, Amy Judd Lieberman, Char Sidney
- Directors:
- Mary Bronstein
- Producers:
- Josh Safdie, Ronald Bronstein, Eli Bush, Richie Doyle, Conor Hannon, Sara Murphy, Ryan Zacarias
- Writers:
- Mary Bronstein
- Genres:
- Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 07/12/2026
- Run Time:
- 113 minutes
- Languages:
- English
- Subtitles:
- None
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.39:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- New audio commentary by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
- Audio commentary with Director Mary Bronstein
- It's Okay to Feel Uncomfortable: a new interview with Mary Bronstein
- Leaning Into It: a new interview with Actor Rose Byrne
- Uncomfortable and Awkward: a new interview with Actor Christian Slater
- Into the Void: Amber T on If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
- Behind the Scenes
- Deleted Scenes
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 07/12/2026
- Run Time:
- 113 minutes
- Languages:
- English
- Subtitles:
- None
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.39:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- New audio commentary by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
- Audio commentary with Director Mary Bronstein
- It's Okay to Feel Uncomfortable: a new interview with Mary Bronstein
- Leaning Into It: a new interview with Actor Rose Byrne
- Uncomfortable and Awkward: a new interview with Actor Christian Slater
- Into the Void: Amber T on If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
- Behind the Scenes
- Deleted Scenes
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Reviews (1) of If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
Anxiety on the Brink - If I Had Legs I'd Kick You review by griggs
You don’t so much watch If I Had Legs I’d Kick You as feel it tightening around your ribcage. It’s one of the most convincing portraits of emotional collapse I’ve seen in a long time, and Rose Byrne’s lead performance is simply astonishing – every micro-flinch, half-swallowed word and late-night stare feels painfully true. Conan O’Brien and A$AP Rocky, playing people who orbit her chaos, quietly underline how far out of sync everyone is with what she actually needs.
What really hits hard is how badly everyone around her listens. The film keeps circling unequal emotional labour: men offering fixes, women offering empathy; friends and family treating support like a courtesy rather than a responsibility. Maternal guilt works like its own gravity well, dragging every decision into a spiral, and even the “nice” moments arrive with a hairline crack already running through them.
Formally, it leans into domestic dread rather than genre shocks. The sound design and editing keep a low-grade panic humming, especially in those insomnia-soaked nights where shame spirals take over. It’s not an easy sit, but it’s so precise and so clear-eyed about how much strain we normalise that it feels quietly monumental.