{"id":330725,"date":"2025-10-25T04:16:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T04:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/330725\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T04:16:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T04:16:38","slug":"rb-legends-new-edition-come-to-dallas-on-tour-with-icons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/330725\/","title":{"rendered":"R&B legends New Edition come to Dallas on tour with icons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Movie history is littered with depictions of stressed-out mothers who have breakdowns due to the pressure put on them by their children, spouses, or society in general. Recent examples include Hereditary, Tully<\/a>, and Nightbitch<\/a>, with each of them finding different ways to depict their main character\u2019s struggles. Yet another put-upon mother goes through the wringer in the oddly-named If I Had Legs I\u2019d Kick You<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

When we meet Linda (Rose Byrne), she\u2019s already in the middle of a huge ball of stress. Her daughter (Delaney Quinn) suffers from an unnamed illness that requires around-the-clock care and frequent doctor visitors. Her husband, Charles (Christian Slater), is a boat captain whose job keeps him away from home for long periods of time. And her job as a therapist requires her to hear other people\u2019s problems, necessitating her seeing a fellow therapist (Conan O\u2019Brien) on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

Nearly everyone else she encounters in the movie adds to her anxiety, including Caroline (Danielle Macdonald), a new mother who\u2019s constantly worried about her baby; Dr. Spring (Mary Bronstein), who constantly harps on Linda to get her daughter to eat; an officious parking attendant at the hospital; and a sneering desk clerk at the motel she and her daughter are forced to stay at after a plumbing disaster at home. Consequently, she dismisses James (A$AP Rocky), another motel worker, the one person who treats her with a modicum of kindness.<\/p>\n

Written and directed by Bronstein, the film is a harrowing experience that somehow also manages to be darkly funny at times. Linda is dealing with way too much for one person to adequately handle, something that is compounded by the fact that nobody really listens to her, not even the therapist she\u2019s paying to do so. Scenes bounce back and forth between Linda demonstrating righteous anger at what the world is throwing at her and crushing guilt over supposedly not doing enough for her child.<\/p>\n

Bronstein depicts Linda\u2019s journey in a number of interesting ways, some straightforward and others not so much. Bronstein makes liberal use of close-ups on Linda\u2019s face, heightening the feeling that the world is closing in on her. The plumbing problem at her home results in a huge hole in the ceiling, which becomes the source of some unexplained phenomena, a choice that might have been unnecessary.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s most striking about the film is how hardly anyone is on Linda\u2019s side. Since the film joins the story as it\u2019s already in progress, the audience is left to guess as to how Linda has behaved in the past to garner such negative interactions from people who should be helping her. While she\u2019s not a perfect person, she also doesn\u2019t appear to be such a jerk that she should be treated with disdain everywhere she goes.<\/p>\n

Byrne, who\u2019s gravitated toward lighter roles in recent years, is an absolute marvel in this part. The more stress Linda feels, the more she becomes disheveled, and Byrne makes you feel every ounce of the character\u2019s pain. O\u2019Brien, who\u2019s rarely had to play anyone but \u201cConan O\u2019Brien\u201d before, is surprisingly good, tamping down his comic sensibility to complement Byrne well. A$AP Rocky also makes a nice impression, elevating a character that\u2019s a little underwritten.<\/p>\n

The role of a mom is never an easy one, and that\u2019s in the best of circumstances. If I Had Legs I\u2019d Kick You – a title that is never explained yet still somehow fits – earns its stripes by demonstrating how the often thankless job of motherhood can become even more distressing when the mom in question is given little to no support.<\/p>\n

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If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is now playing in select theaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Movie history is littered with depictions of stressed-out mothers who have breakdowns due to the pressure put on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":330726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,5497,1596,975,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-330725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-concerts","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115432874882899937","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}