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Twelve-year-old Bea insists she is no longer a child, but she has moved into her grandmother's New York apartment while her father waits in the hospital for heart surgery. One night she follows a strange creature to a nearby house and meets Cal, who also sees imaginary friends, the companions children invent and later forget. He has been trying to place them with new children. Bea encounters Blue, a large purple creature, and Blossom, a butterfly-like being, and wakes in Cal's apartment after fainting. Initially reluctant, she decides to help him. He takes her to a retirement home for forgotten imaginary friends at Coney Island, run by an elderly teddy bear named Lewis.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about IF (2024)
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- The end credits of IF list Brad Pitt as Keith, an invisible imaginary friend who has no lines and is understood to be just offscreen when other characters trip over him. The credit references his cameo as Vanisher in Deadpool 2, which also starred Ryan Reynolds.
- IF was dedicated to Louis Gossett Jr., who voiced the teddy bear IF Lewis and died before the film's release.
- In October 2019, Paramount Pictures won a bidding war against Lionsgate and Sony for the rights to Imaginary Friends, a project from John Krasinski and Ryan Reynolds that Krasinski would write and direct.
- IF reunited John Krasinski and Steve Carell, who had both starred in The Office as Jim Halpert and Michael Scott.
