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The Borrowers

Little People. Big Trouble. Lots of fun.

1997 · PG · 1h 27m

Directed by Peter Hewitt

6.1

TMDB audience score
550 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • John Goodman
    Ocious P. Potter

  • Mark Williams
    Exterminator Jeff

  • Jim Broadbent
    Pod Clock

  • Celia Imrie
    Homily Clock

  • Flora Newbigin
    Arrietty Clock

  • Tom Felton
    Peagreen Clock

  • Raymond Pickard
    Spiller

  • Bradley Pierce
    Pete Lender

  • Aden Gillett
    Joe Lender

  • Doon Mackichan
    Victoria Lender

  • Hugh Laurie
    Officer Steady

  • Ruby Wax
    Town Hall Clerk

  • Andrew Dunford
    Dustbunny

  • Bob Goody
    Minty

  • Patrick Monckton
    Swag

  • Dick Ward
    Milkman

  • George Antoni
    Chauffeur

  • Alex Winter
    TV Gangster