Linda is a therapist, wife and a working mother at her wits’ end. Her anxiety is cranked even tighter when an upstairs plumbing mishap leads to a gaping hole in the ceiling over Linda’s living room. Forced to face yet another crisis, she moves to a motel with her young daughter while she navigates how to fix the hole in her ceiling, treat challenging patients, meet her daughter's demands and handle a parade of people who seem incapable of helping her. With her life literally crashing down around her, Linda is slowly descending into an emotional meltdown.
“This movie started as a seed of an idea when I was going through a crisis with my own daughter. I thought about, is there something that exists in the world that’s about the mother’s struggle with the child — or the child’s struggle, but that is concerned with the mother’s internal struggle in sort of a selfish way?”
Mary Bronstein
Born in 1979 in New York, USA. Bronstein is an actress and writer who holds a master's degree in psychology from Columbia University. Known for her signature filmmaking style, she has written on feminist theory for several academic publishers. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is her second feature film.