Four Kids and It

Four Kids and It (2020) is a family fantasy you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Andy de Emmony, it drops a wish-granting creature onto a Cornwall beach and turns four kids loose with the fallout.

The Psammead — here called It, a grumpy, ancient sand-fairy voiced by Michael Caine — grants one wish a day, and every wish fades at sundown. At first it's a blast: money, fame, a quick flight over the cliffs. Then a collector named Tristan, played with relish by Russell Brand, decides he wants the creature for himself. Matthew Goode and Paula Patton are the parents whose blended-family holiday curdles into a chase. The film adapts Jacqueline Wilson's book, itself a riff on E. Nesbit's Edwardian original. It's gentle, undemanding stuff for a family movie night, with a mind-what-you-wish-for lesson that never tips into preaching. Stream Four Kids and It (2020) online on iFILM.