7.5
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025)
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025)
Overview
With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: High
Trans: Positive
Viewer Rating
7.5
Overview
With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
The film's central thesis explicitly promotes a progressive feminist ideology by critiquing societal expectations of women, highlighting the emotional toll of motherhood, and challenging the silencing of women's anger and suffering.
The movie critically examines societal expectations of motherhood, mental health, and caregiving from a distinctly female perspective, challenging traditional gender roles and patriarchal family dynamics. It also incorporates racial diversity in its casting, contributing to a broader DEI discourse.
Secondary
The film *If I Had Legs I'd Kick You* indirectly explores themes relevant to the transsexual community, using the protagonist's journey to metaphorically represent the navigation of identity, societal constraints, and resilience. It encourages a nuanced understanding of self-perception and marginalized identities, resonating positively with the lived experiences of trans individuals through its thoughtful and philosophical approach.
The film's narrative, focusing on a mother's struggles with motherhood and mental health, does not include any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. Therefore, the LGBTQ+ community is not portrayed in the movie, resulting in a 'N/A' rating for its depiction.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film is an original screenplay featuring characters created specifically for this project. As there is no pre-existing source material or established canonical characters, there are no characters whose on-screen gender can differ from a prior depiction, thus no gender swap occurs.
The film is an original screenplay with no prior source material or established characters. All characters are new creations, meaning there is no pre-existing canonical race to compare against the casting choices. Therefore, no race swap has occurred.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.6
6.4
Critic Ratings
9.2
7.8
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