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Deadline’s Read nan Screenplay bid highlighting nan buzziest scripts of nan awards play continues pinch nan tense melodramatic drama If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, writer-director Mary Bronstein‘s sophomore characteristic movie that premiered astatine this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
Rose Byrne stars arsenic a therapist who progressively spirals arsenic her life gets retired of her control, arsenic her helplessness complete her daughter’s enigma unwellness is compounded by a diligent who goes missing, an absentee hubby and her ain therapist trying to wantonness her. Conan O’Brien plays nan therapist, while Danielle Macdonald, Christian Slater, A$ap Rocky and Delaney Quinn besides star.
The movie, Bronstein’s follow-up to her 2028 debut Yeast starring Greta Gerwig, has been racking up accolades since Park City. Bronstein scored Gotham Awards nominations for nan book and for directing, while Byrne has been connected a rotation since winning nan Leading Performer grant astatine Berlin, pinch Best Actress noms astatine nan Golden Globes, Critics Choice, nan Gothams and nan Spirit Awards on pinch respective critics group nods.
Bronstein has said nan thought from nan movie came from her ain experiences arsenic a mother and dealing pinch a family illness; though she says nan communicative is not factually autobiographical, it is “emotionally accurate” successful its sometimes witty, much often feverish snapshot of a mother who doesn’t consciousness she is doing capable successful immoderate capacity. An important constituent to Bronstein: showing precisely what that worry and shame looks like, thing she said she hadn’t seen successful erstwhile movies.
To nail it, it took her 7 years to create nan script. “I really felt for illustration I needed to make this movie,” she says. “I had complete passageway imagination and honestly, that was nan only measurement to get it done.”
Read her screenplay below.
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