The IF movie is about a little girl named Bea who lost her mother to cancer and is scared of losing her father too. Her father is going through a heart surgery and she thinks he will die. He continuously tells her he will not die, but she doesn’t believe him. While he is getting ready for the surgery and staying at the hospital, Bea stays with her grandma in New York. The movie takes a wild turn when IFs (Short for imaginary friends) pop up in her life.
The movie starts off with Bea, as a little girl, playing with her mother in the grandmother’s apartment. Shortly after, it cuts to Bea riding with her grandma to the hospital to see her dad. The dad does some funny tricks, but Bea says he should be serious and that not everything has to be fun. By the context, you can tell Bea is worried about her father but shows little concern in this scene so she doesn’t frighten him.
As Bea stays with her grandma, she sees one of her imaginary friends, Blossom. She follows Blossom to an imaginary room, where the story begins. She meets Calvin, a supposed human helping the IFs find new children, and teams up with him. Bea goes on adventures trying to pair the IFs with new children but later learns it’s impossible and instead reconnects them with their old children, who are now adults. She learns her grandmother’s IF was Blossom, and reconnects the two.
After helping all the IFs, she goes back to see her father, and he is asleep after the surgery, which causes Bea to cry. Bea says things like, “Please don’t leave me,” and “I’m just a kid,” but secretly the dad was awake and okay. He reassures her that he is okay. Bea goes and tells the doctors that her dad is awake, and it cuts to a new screen.
The end of the movie is Bea and her father packing their bags about to move away, Bea remembers something and runs up to the imaginary room upstairs. The room is barren, nothing special at all. She tells Calvin that she does need him after realizing that he is her original IF. He transforms into his original form and hands her a balloon. This scene cuts to them saying goodbye to the grandma and driving away; the end scene is the grandma telling Blossom to come on inside.
This movie was up and down in happiness and sadness. It’s a movie that makes you “cry and then un-cry.”
