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Gather, chat, and then spend about an hour silently reading your book of choice in the company of others who love to read. It’s a great way to be in the company of others when your social battery is low.
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Contact: Patricia Schneider/Publicist (917) 612-2675
“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” Brings a Howl of Maternal Desperation Spiked with Jagged Humor
March 2026– A mother on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
That would be Linda, the protagonist of “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”, which Rivertown Film is screening on Wednesday, March 25th at The Nyack Center (South Broadway at Depew Ave., entrance on South Broadway). Linda, a therapist, has good reason to be at her breaking point: her living room ceiling has just caved in, necessitating a move to a cheap motel. She is the mother of a child who refuses to eat and must be sustained by a feeding tube. Her husband, who undermines her, is a cruise captain on a monthslong trip. She has a patient whose delusions about her baby are very concerning, and Linda’s own therapist seems to hate her.
Who wouldn’t be on the verge?
Brilliantly portrayed by Rose Byrne, an Oscar nominee for her performance, Linda’s choices grow increasingly horrible and irresponsible as she suffers one setback after another. The spot on, disquieting sound design of the film emphasizes Rose’s suffocation.
The movie turns a mother’s anxiety into an almost supernatural force.
Doors to the Nyack Center open at 7:30pm, and the film begins at 8pm. Tickets are $13/General Admission, $11/Students & Seniors, and $9/Rivertown Film Members More information can be found at rivertownfilm.org.
Rivertown Film is a non-profit organization which was founded in 2001. Their mission is devoted to celebrating, exploring and promoting the art of the motion picture through film screenings and educational programs. The organization is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts and with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and our corporate sponsor are Elena Schloss, Happy Dwellings with Elena/ Julia B. Fee, Sotheby’s International Realty, Painter Smith Advertising, Emily J. Blake MD, and Emerald Medicare.
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With her life (and ceiling) crashing down around her, Linda (Rose Byrne, nominated for an Oscar for this role) attempts to navigate her child’s mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist. With Rose Bryne, Conan O’Brien, 2025, USA, 113 minutes
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The intimate story of one woman’s attempt to uncover the truth about her father’s participation in a lynching, find a way to hold her family accountable, and face the dawning awareness of her own unconscious racism.
Years after Lee Ed Frazier’s death, his daughter Jan made a shocking discovery: as a young man her father had participated in a lynching. As she attempts to uncover the truth about what happened, Jan learns that this specific lynching was iconic in American history, because photos of it were the first ever to be published in a national publication. Both Time and Life magazines carried the story and the photos as they reported on the anti-lynching bill that was before Congress at that very moment.
Additionally, she realizes that no names of the lynchers were ever published. Even the photographer was protected by a cloak of agreed-upon anonymity. Shaken by this stark reflection of white privilege and the brutality it sought to minimize, Jan must now reckon with deeply conflicted feelings about the father she loved, find a way to hold her family accountable and face the dawning awareness of her own unconscious racism.
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Maria Giura is the author of. two poetry collections published by Bordighera Press—If We Still Lived Where I Was Born (Nov. 2025) and What My Father Taught Me—and a memoir, Celibate published by Apprentice House Press. An Academy of American Poets winner, Giura teaches writing workshops for Casa Belvedere and received her PhD in English from Binghamton University.
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March 21st Event Schedule 
The Secret Garden Book Discussion @ 11am (FREE)
Tea Party @ 12:30pm ($25/person)
Fairy Wishing Well Crafting Workshop @ 1:30pm ($50/person)
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