The Borrowers

"Little People. Big Trouble. Lots of fun."

Feb 13 1998 PG 1h 29m
Adventure, Comedy, Family

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.

Plot

The Borrowers are four-inch high "little people" who live under the floorboards. When the owner of the house they live in dies and her evil lawyer Ocious P. Potter wants to destroy the house to build luxury apartments in its place, they start to fight him with the help of the son of house owner, Pete.

Written by

Mary Norton, Gavin Scott, John Kamps

Directed by

Peter Hewitt

Cast

John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, Mark Williams

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America, United Kingdom

Production Companies

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Working Title Films

Languages

English

Awards

Nominated for 2 BAFTA 1 win & 5 nominations total

Trailers
The Borrowers Official Trailer #1 - John Goodman Movie (1997) HD
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