The Borrowers

The Borrowers

86 mins | Comedy, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy | Dec. 5, 1997

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.

The Borrowers

86 mins | Comedy, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy | Dec. 5, 1997

The Borrowers
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.
IMDb rating 5.9
Producers PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Working Title Films
Original title The Borrowers
Directors Sara Desmond, Peter Hewitt
Writers Gavin Scott, John Kamps, Mary Norton

Cast

John Goodman

as Ocious P. Potter

Jim Broadbent

as Pod Clock

Mark Williams

as Exterminator Jeff

Celia Imrie

as Homily Clock

Tom Felton

as Peagreen Clock

Hugh Laurie

as Police Officer Steady

Bradley Pierce

as Pete Lender

Ruby Wax

as Town Hall Clerk

Doon Mackichan

as Victoria Lender

Alex Winter

as TV Gangster

Raymond Pickard

as Spud Spiller

Flora Newbigin

as Arrietty 'Ett' Clock

Aden Gillett

as Joe Lender

David Freeman

as TV Constable