Deadline’s Learn the Screenplay collection highlighting the buzziest scripts of the awards season continues with the tense dramatic comedy If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, writer-director Mary Bronstein‘s sophomore function movie that premiered at this 12 months’s Sundance Movie Pageant.
Rose Byrne stars as a therapist who more and more spirals as her life will get out of her management, as her helplessness over her daughter’s thriller sickness is compounded by a affected person who goes lacking, an absentee husband and her personal therapist attempting to desert her. Conan O’Brien performs the therapist, whereas Danielle Macdonald, Christian Slater, A$ap Rocky and Delaney Quinn additionally star.
The film, Bronstein’s follow-up to her 2028 debut Yeast starring Greta Gerwig, has been racking up accolades since Park Metropolis. Bronstein scored Gotham Awards nominations for the script and for guiding, whereas Byrne has been on a roll since successful the Main Performer award at Berlin, with Finest Actress noms on the Golden Globes, Critics Selection, the Gothams and the Spirit Awards together with a number of critics group nods.
Bronstein has stated the concept from the film got here from her personal experiences as a mom and coping with a household sickness; although she says the story just isn’t factually autobiographical, it’s “emotionally correct” in its typically witty, extra typically feverish snapshot of a mom who doesn’t really feel she is doing sufficient in any capability. An essential aspect to Bronstein: exhibiting precisely what that anxiousness and disgrace appears to be like like, one thing she stated she hadn’t seen in earlier films.
To nail it, it took her seven years to develop the script. “I actually felt like I wanted to make this film,” she says. “I had full tunnel imaginative and prescient and truthfully, that was the one approach to get it achieved.”
Learn her screenplay beneath.
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