The Borrowers

1997

87 min

6.0

Ends at

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.

Budget

$29,000,000

Genre

Adventure, Fantasy, Action, Comedy, Family

Director

Peter Hewitt

Country

United Kingdom

Cast & Crew

John Goodman

Mark Williams

Jim Broadbent

Celia Imrie

Flora Newbigin

Tom Felton

Raymond Pickard

Bradley Pierce

Aden Gillett

Doon Mackichan

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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.

  • John Goodman

  • Mark Williams

  • Jim Broadbent

  • Celia Imrie

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