Bea is a young girl who is going through some difficult life experiences and suddenly she can see IF’s aka imaginary friends who have all been left behind as the children who created them grew up and forgot.
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Obviously the opening scene is rather traumatic with Bea’s mother dying of cancer, and that was certainly not how I expected this film to start at all. Then moving forward a few years and having her father in hospital, it actually takes a while to find out what is wrong with him. She then must spend time with her Grandmother, who is doing her very best to make her comfortable. But all of that bringing memories of her mother back. Like seriously wasn’t this supposed to be a kids film?
Anyway the trauma of expecting more loss is about to make Bea believe again and give her the ability to see the IF’s who are lead by Cal in an apartment in the same building as where her Grandmother lives. This is when the film for me just becomes way too creepy, like why is this grown man hanging around with a child? I mean yes, we do get a twist but I was so far gone before that point.
The thing is with this film, it just didn’t seem to be able to decide if it was going for the heartbreak to heartwarming style. For me it massively failed and that was such a disappointment given the talented cast that John Krasinski assembled. I mean maybe I cannot really relate to it as don’t think I ever had an imaginary friend, would that possibly have made this hit differently?
