"IF" stands for "Imaginary Friends". 12-year-old Bea is living with her
grandmother in New York City while her father is in hospital waiting for heart
surgery. She finds that strange creatures live in an apartment in the
building. They live with a man called Cal who collects imaginary friends that
were abandoned when children grew up into adulthood. Cal is looking for
someone to help him reunite the imaginary friends with their former
owners. Bea accepts the job, but she's not too successful.
I shan't go into the plot in any more detail to avoid spoilers. After seeing
the trailers I was surprised that it's very much a children's film. I expected
something that would bridge the gap between children's films and adult films,
but there's hardly anything adult in the film.
I never had an imaginary friend as a child. As far as I know. One of the main
themes of the film is that adults have forgotten their imaginary friends. As a
child I was a loner. Until I was eight I lived on the grounds of Little Aston
Hall. There were only three families, and neither of the other families had
children, so I didn't have anyone to play with. If anyone ever needed an
imaginary friend, it was me.
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