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If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (2025)
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.
Animal actors in this production were monitored through American Humane Society’s No Animals Were Harmed® program.
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Certified Animal Action Overview
No Animals Were Harmed™ closely monitored every step of the animal action in this film to make sure the best standards of care and safety were upheld. The real hamster was gently handed to the actress by a professional trainer while the car remained stationary. When the hamster appears on the passenger seat, it was carefully placed there by the trainer just before filming. And when the scene takes a dramatic turn and the hamster appears to be run over, rest assured it was an animatronic, not a real animal. Throughout the entire process, the welfare of the animals remained the top priority.
Detailed Animal Action Report
In the scene where we see a little girl in the backseat of a car open a box on her lap, revealing a hamster, prior to shooting the trainers brought a cardboard box with the hamster inside to the actress. The car remained stationary at all times. In the same scene when the woman driving the car looks down at the passenger’s seat and sees the hamster which escaped from the box, prior to shooting the scene, the trainer placed the hamster on the car seat, before filming the hamster displaying natural behavior on the car seat. In this same sequence when we see the hamster get run over by the car, they used a fake animatronic hamster.
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Release Date: October 10, 2025
Certification: Full Certification
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
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