Movie
The Borrowers
Overview
The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer Ocious P. Potter steals the will granting title to the house, which he plans to demolish in order to build apartments. The Lenders are forced to move, and the Clocks face the risk of being exposed to the normal-sized world.
Details
- Release date
- 1997-12-05
- Runtime
- 87 min
- Genres
- Adventure, Fantasy, Action, Comedy, Family
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Working Title Films, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- John Goodman as Ocious P. Potter
- Mark Williams as Exterminator Jeff
- Jim Broadbent as Pod Clock
- Celia Imrie as Homily Clock
- Flora Newbigin as Arrietty Clock
- Tom Felton as Peagreen Clock
- Raymond Pickard as Spiller
- Bradley Pierce as Pete Lender
- Aden Gillett as Joe Lender
- Doon Mackichan as Victoria Lender
- Hugh Laurie as Officer Steady
- Ruby Wax as Town Hall Clerk
Crew
- Peter Hewitt - Director
- Gavin Scott - Screenplay
- John Kamps - Screenplay
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