‘The Imaginary’ reveals the many positive skills that playing with imaginary friends can develop

Amanda and her imaginary friend Rudger in The Imaginary. Credit: Netflix There has been a recent spate of movies about imaginary friends. In the winter, I watched Imaginary, a horror flick about a sinister imaginary friend. By spring, IF had introduced us to a group of invisible characters, and now summer has arrived with “The Imaginary” on Netflix. “The Imaginary” is nothing like either of the previous movies. It is animated, which enables the viewer to see beautifully crafted imagined landscapes. And where the horror film Imaginary was clearly geared toward adults and IF toward tweens, this movie would be Read More