"If I Had Legs I'd Kick You"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL REVIEW. Please check out the full podcast review on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture For this week's third podcast review, Nadia Dalimonte, Dan Bayer, Katie Johnson, and Giovanni Lago join me to review and discuss the latest film from Mary Bronstein, "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You," starring Rose Byrne, Conan O'Brien, Danielle Macdonald, Christian Slater, and ASAP Rocky. It is a psychological, nerve-wracking comedy-drama film that follows a mother desperately trying to navigate her daughter's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist. The film had its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, where it received positive reviews for Rose Byrne's performance, Bronstein's direction, the supporting performances of the rest of the cast, and the screenplay's confrontations with uncomfortable truths surrounding motherhood and parenting. Please tune in as we discuss these elements, its awards season chances, and more in our SPOILER-FILLED review. Thank you for listening, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture Podcast, and this is our review for if I had legs, I'd kick you.
0:05.8	Mommy!
0:07.5	The bathroom has water in it.
0:09.5	Come quickly!
0:14.6	I try very hard to be in control of her and everything, but it may as well not even be there at all. I don't like how it feels in my sort.
0:22.6	Just stay there, okay? Just hold on.
0:24.6	What is it?
0:26.6	Oh, you're gonna die?
0:28.6	Is the house gonna fall on top of us?
0:30.6	Mommy!
0:31.6	Hey!
0:32.6	Hey! We just got home, and you would not believe...
0:35.6	We are out of time. I have another patient coming, so... We just got home and you would not believe...
0:41.3	We are out of time. I had another patient coming, so... Wait, now, what about the 10-minute warning?
0:43.3	Yeah, I just wasn't paying attention.
0:45.3	You didn't respond to the email that I sent you about my dream.
0:48.3	I don't respond to my client's dream emails.
0:51.3	I know you have a lot on your plate, but she's getting better.
0:56.0	And the rest of it is totally temporary.
0:59.0	You need to be a team.
1:01.0	There's a whole...
1:02.0	I know, I know the problem with that logic, though, is that I'm not a housewife.
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