IF (Movie)

IF Movie Details:

Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Live-action/animated fantasy comedy
Release date	May 8, 2024 (France) May 17, 2024 (United States)
Running time	1hr 44min
Age rating	PG
Cast	Ryan Reynolds John Krasinski Cailey Fleming Phoebe Waller-Bridge Louis Gossett Jr. Steve Carell
Directed by	John Krasinski
Written by	John Krasinski
Produced by	John Krasinski Allyson Seeger Andrew Form Ryan Reynolds
Cinematography by	Janusz Kamiński
Edited by	Christopher Rouse Andy Canny
Music by	Michael Giacchino
Production Company	Sunday Night Productions Maximum Effort
Distributor	Paramount Pictures

IF Movie Cast & Characters:

• Cailey Fleming as Bea, a young girl who can see IFs
• Ryan Reynolds as Cal, Bea’s neighbor who can also see IFs
• John Krasinski as Bea’s father
• Fiona Shaw as Margaret, Bea’s grandmother
• Alan Kim as Benjamin
• Liza Colón-Zayas as Janet, a nurse
• Bobby Moynihan as Jeremy
• Catharine Daddario as Bea’s mom

Voices

• Steve Carell as Blue, a kind purple furry monster who was Jeremy’s childhood imaginary friend
• Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Blossom, an excitable humanoid butterfly who was Margaret’s childhood imaginary friend
• Louis Gossett Jr. as Lewis, an elderly teddy bear
• Awkwafina as Bubble
• John Krasinski as Marshmallow Man
• Emily Blunt as Unicorn, a unicorn
• George Clooney as Spaceman, an astronaut
• Bradley Cooper as Ice, a glass of ice water
• Matt Damon as Flower, a sunflower
• Bill Hader as Banana
• Richard Jenkins as Art Teacher, an animation figure
• Keegan-Michael Key as Slime, a green blob of slime
• Blake Lively as Octopuss, a cat who wears an octopus costume
• Sebastian Maniscalco as Magician Mouse
• Christopher Meloni as Cosmo, a supersleuth detective
• Matthew Rhys as Ghost, a ghost who wears a crown
• Sam Rockwell as Guardian Dog, a dog who works as a superhero
• Maya Rudolph as Alligator
• Amy Schumer as Gummy Bear
• Allyson Seeger as Viola
• Jon Stewart as Robot
• Brad Pitt as Keith, an invisible IF

Storyline:

A young girl named Bea gains the ability to see people’s imaginary friends, referred to as “IFs” for short, who have been abandoned by the kids they helped. Bea then discovers that her neighbor, The Man Upstairs, has the same ability.

IF Movie Box Office Collection & Budget:

Budget	$110 million
Domestic Opening	$33,715,801
Domestic Collection	$111,149,917
International Collection	$78,996,891
Worldwide Collection	$190,146,808

About IF Movie:

IF is an American live-action/animated fantasy comedy film Ryan Reynolds, Krasinski, Cailey Fleming, Fiona Shaw, Alan Kim, and Liza Colón-Zayas, along with the voices of Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Emily Blunt Louis Gossett Jr., and Steve Carell.

Written, produced, and directed by John Krasinski, the film’s music is composed by Michael Giacchino, while Janusz Kamiński handles the cinematography, and Christopher Rouse and Andy Canny do the editing. The plot follows a young girl and her neighbor who find themselves able to see imaginary friends.

In October 2019, Paramount Pictures outbid Lionsgate and Sony, among others, to win the rights to Imaginary Friends, a project developed by John Krasinski and Ryan Reynolds, with Krasinski set to write and direct it.

In May 2021, Krasinski’s Sunday Night Productions and Reynolds’s Maximum Effort signed first-look deals with Paramount. In October 2021, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Fiona Shaw joined the cast.

In January 2022, Steve Carell, Alan Kim, Cailey Fleming, and Louis Gossett Jr. joined the cast. The film reunites Krasinski and Carell, who both starred in The Office (2005–2013). In August 2022, Bobby Moynihan was added to the cast. The voice cast and premise were revealed in April 2023 at CinemaCon 2023.

Principal photography began on August 31, 2022, with Janusz Kamiński as the cinematographer, and it wrapped by early May 2023.

In January 2024, Krasinski revealed that Michael Giacchino had composed the score for the film.

IF was released in France on May 8, 2024. The film was released in the United States by Paramount Pictures on May 17, 2024 (after its originally scheduled release date of November 17, 2023, was first pushed to May 24, 2024, and then shifted forward by one week). It is one of the highest-grossing movies of 2024.