If 🎥 2024 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Twelve year-old Bea moves into her grandmother Margaret’s apartment in New York while her father awaits heart surgery in the same hospital where her mother died years earlier. Bea insists that she is not a child, but that night, while watching Harvey on television, she hears something in the other room; looking into a closet, she finds some of her childhood things. Later, she sees an unfamiliar creature and follows it back to her grandmother’s building. The next night, she sees it again, accompanied by a mysterious man, and follows them to a nearby house where the man, Calvin, retrieves a large, furry, purple creature named Blue.

Bea then meets the other creature, a butterfly-like being named Blossom, and faints. Bea awakens in Cal’s apartment, where she learns that he has been working with imaginary friends to place them with new children as their original children have grown up and forgotten them. Initially reluctant, she decides to help Cal. The next day, Cal takes Bea to Memory Lane Retirement Home, a retirement community for forgotten IFs housed underneath a swing ride at Coney Island as he is tripped by an invisible IF named Keith. An elderly teddy bear IF named Lewis inspires her to use her imagination to redesign the facility. Bea tries to match one of the IFs with Benjamin, a young patient at the hospital, but he is unable to see any of them.

Lewis suggests that IFs might not need new children, but rather to reunite with their old ones. Margaret tells Bea about her childhood dream of becoming a dancer. Bea recognizes Blossom in one of Margaret’s childhood photographs. Blossom acknowledges being Margaret’s IF, but Margaret can no longer see her. Bea tries to stir Margaret’s memory by playing a phonograph record, which inspires Margaret to dance. While Margaret relives her childhood dream, Blossom glows and grows butterfly wings.

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