If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (2025)

It's hard to look away from this captivating story of a woman struggling to keep it together and Rose Byrne earned two thirds of the movie's 114 wins and other nominations for the lead role of Linda, a therapist dealing with a chronically ill child, an absent and clueless husband, and problems with their house, just to name a few.

Conan O'Brien steps out of his comedic pigeonhole to play Linda's therapist. Further support comes from Christian Slater as her husband Charles, Danielle Macdonald as her patient Caroline, A$AP Rocky as her friend James, and Ivy Wolk as a surly motel worker.

Director/writer Mary Bronstein has a cameo as Dr. Spring and her actual husband Ronald Bronstein shows up briefly as Caroline's husband. No composer is credited by imdb but it provides this list of songs.

Byrne was last blogged for Ezra, Slater for The Public, and Macdonald for French Exit. O'Brien, of course, is best known as a writer, comedian, Oscar host, and talk show host with literally thousands of episodes to his credit. After I wrote about Rocky AKA Rakim Mayers in Dope, the rapper was in Highest 2 Lowest, though I failed to mention him. Wolk was in Anora (I didn't mention her either) and we enjoyed her in four episodes of English Teacher as a conniving high schooler, among her credits. Mary Bronstein is new to me and Ronald co-wrote Uncut Gems with the Safdie brothers, one of whom, Josh, was a producer on this one.

Rotten Tomatoes' critics are doing the Can Can with their 92% average, while its audiences are more restrained at 79. Jack and I rented it on March 8, and now it is also available on HBO Max with a subscription.