{"id":478513,"date":"2025-12-29T21:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/478513\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T21:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:17:11","slug":"if-i-had-legs-id-kick-you-script-read-mary-bronsteins-screenplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/478513\/","title":{"rendered":"‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’ Script: Read Mary Bronstein’s Screenplay"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDeadline\u2019s Read the Screenplay<\/a> series highlighting the buzziest scripts of the awards season continues with the tense dramatic comedy If I Had Legs I\u2019d Kick You, writer-director Mary Bronstein<\/a>\u2018s sophomore feature film that premiered at this year\u2019s Sundance Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tRose Byrne<\/a> stars as a therapist who increasingly spirals as her life gets out of her control, as her helplessness over her daughter\u2019s mystery illness is compounded by a patient who goes missing, an absentee husband and her own therapist trying to abandon her. Conan O\u2019Brien plays the therapist, while Danielle Macdonald, Christian Slater, A$ap Rocky and Delaney Quinn also star.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe movie, Bronstein\u2019s follow-up to her 2028 debut Yeast starring Greta Gerwig, has been racking up accolades since Park City. Bronstein scored Gotham Awards nominations<\/a> for the script and for directing, while Byrne has been on a roll since winning the Leading Performer award at Berlin, with Best Actress noms at the Golden Globes<\/a>, Critics Choice<\/a>, the Gothams and the Spirit Awards<\/a> along with several critics group nods.<\/p>\n

\n\tBronstein has said the idea from the movie came from her own experiences as a mother and dealing with a family illness; though she says the story is not factually autobiographical, it is \u201cemotionally accurate\u201d in its sometimes witty, more often feverish snapshot of a mother who doesn\u2019t feel she is doing enough in any capacity. An important element to Bronstein: showing exactly what that anxiety and shame looks like, something she said she hadn\u2019t seen in previous movies.<\/p>\n

\n\tTo nail it, it took her seven years to develop the script. \u201cI really felt like I needed to make this movie,\u201d she says. \u201cI had complete tunnel vision and honestly, that was the only way to get it done.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tRead her screenplay below.<\/p>\n

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