IF IMAGINARY FRIENDS: THE FULL MOVIE RECAP

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My full movie recap of IF (2024) Imaginary Friends.

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00:00This is my full movie recap of the amazing and truly entertaining movie, If, or Imaginary

00:11Friends.

00:12The movie starts out with a 12-year-old bee who moves into her grandmother's Margaret's

00:18apartment in New York while her father waits for heart surgery in the same hospital where

00:23her mother died of cancer years earlier.

00:26She chafes against his playful antics, insisting she can handle the situation with maturity.

00:34One night, Bee goes out to buy a charger for her mother's old camcorder and sees an unfamiliar

00:39creature following it back to her grandmother's building.

00:43The next day, she sees the creature again, accompanied by a man.

00:48Bee follows them to a nearby house where the man, Cal, retrieves a large furry purple creature

00:54named Blue.

00:55She also meets the other creature, a butterfly-like being named Blossom, and faints.

01:01She awakens in Cal's apartment where she learns that he has been working with imaginary

01:06friends, nicknamed Ifs, to place them with new children as their original children have

01:12grown up and forgotten them.

01:13Initially reluctant, Bee eventually decides to help Cal.

01:17The next day, Cal takes Bee to Memory Lane Retirement Home, a retirement community for

01:23Ifs housed underneath a swing in Coney Island.

01:28There he introduces Bee to Louis, an elderly teddy bear who is head of the facility.

01:33He inspires Bee to use her imagination to redesign the facility, much to the chagrin

01:38of Cal.

01:40Bee tries to match one of the Ifs with Benjamin, a young patient at the hospital.

01:44She, Cal, and Louis audition the Ifs, but he is unable to see any of them.

01:49Feeling unmotivated, Bee talks with Louis on the Coney Island pier.

01:53He gives her an idea that maybe Ifs do not need new kids, but rather to reunite with

01:58their old ones.

02:00Talking with her grandmother, she sees a picture of her as a young dancer and recognizes Blossom

02:05in the background of the picture.

02:07Realizing Blossom was her grandmother's If, Bee decides to test Louis' idea.

02:12Playing one of her grandmother's records inspires Margaret to dance, and she remembers

02:16Blossom, instilling Bee with hope.

02:19Following a tip, Bee, Cal, and Blue find Blue's original kid, Jeremy, now a grown-up

02:25man trying to launch a business, by eating a fresh croissant in front of Jeremy.

02:30Bee reminds him of his childhood home above his parents' bakery.

02:35Jeremy remembers Blue, enough for Blue to give Jeremy the confidence he needs for a

02:40business presentation.

02:42That evening, Bee arrives at Margaret's to find her hastily preparing for a return

02:47to the hospital because there's been a complication with her father's treatment.

02:51Bee rushes upstairs to Cal, who comforts her.

02:54When Bee says she does not want to say goodbye to her dad, Cal advises her to tell him a

02:58story instead.

02:59At the hospital, a nurse reassures Bee that her father will be alright.

03:04She tells him a story about realizing she was pushing herself to act like a grown-up

03:08when she's just a child who still needs her father.

03:11He wakes up, and they hug each other.

03:14When Bee goes outside his room, she sees that all of the ifs are gone.

03:19Bee goes upstairs to thank Cal, but no one answers his door.

03:23The landlady shows Bee that the door opens into an old storage room.

03:27After her dad is released from the hospital, he and Bee pack up to go home.

03:31Bee finds an old picture she painted of herself, her parents, and a clown named Calvin.

03:37She suddenly realizes that Cal is her own if, forgotten after the death of her mother.

03:43She thanks him for helping her and tells him she'll always need him.

03:47This allows Bee to see Cal and the ifs again, and they reunite.

03:50After Bee and her father drive off, Margaret asks Blossom if the two of them should go

03:55inside, causing Blossom to realize Margaret can see her.

04:00Sometime later, Cal begins reuniting the ifs with their original kids, now grown-up.

04:05Benjamin meets his if, a cartoonish dragon with glasses.

04:09Bee and her father return home, where he trips over Keith, his invisible imaginary

04:14friend.

04:15And, that takes us out of the movie.

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