IF (2024)

Released May 17th in the US.

Filmed in New York.

The story: As a little girl, Bea found nothing more exciting than being with her parents and creating magic through play and imagination.

Now, Bea is 12. 

Her mother has passed away and her father is in the hospital for a minor surgery.

Bea will be staying with her grandmother, who she hasn't stayed with in years.

But Bea is a very responsible 12-year-old who believes she is no longer a child and can handle what gets in her way.

When returning back to her grandmother's apartment after going to the store one night, Bea believes she has seen a child run into an apartment upstairs.

Bea tries to talk with the child, but is told to go away and that she didn't see anyone.

She persists, but another tenant tells her to go, and she does, so thats that.

Yet the next night, Bea sees what looks like a child follow an apartment tenant out into the street.

She quickly follows them and when they enter another apartment building, Bea watches from outside.

What she sees, she cannot believe. 

But continuing on back to the apartment and following the child, the man, and what looks like a giant purple monster back into their apartment, Bea has to find out what is going on.

The child that Bea thought was a child is not a child at all! She is in fact an imaginary friend, or an IF, as she is taught...

She, along with the big purple monster.

They are IF's who have been forgotten due to their children growing up.

These IF's , which there are many more, are looking to find new best human children friends.

Stars Audrey Hoffman, Catharine Daddario, John Krasinski, Cailey Fleming, Fiona Shaw, Ryan Renyolds, (voice) Phoebe Waller-Bridge, (voice) Louis Gosset Jr, (voice) Steve Carrell, Alan Kim, Liza Colon Zayas, Bobby Moynihan, Laquet Sharnell Pringle, Ed Herbstman, Barbara Andres, Alexander Rivero, Shauna Pinkett, SaRaya Paris Johnson, (voice) John Krasinski

Directed by (& written) John Krasinski

Rated PG

FAMILY/FANTASY/COMEDY

"In loving memory of our friend Louis Gosset Jr."