The Borrowers (1997)
Little People. Big Trouble. Lots of fun.
89 min
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.
- Release date
- December 11, 1997
- Country of origin
- United States, United Kingdom
- Budget
- $29,000,000
- Box office
- $22,619,699
Trailer
Cast
- John Goodman as Ocious P. Potter
- Jim Broadbent as Pod Clock
- Mark Williams as Exterminator Jeff
- 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
Crew
- Peter Hewitt · Director
- Mary Norton · Writer
- Gavin Scott · Writer
- John Kamps · Writer
- Tim Bevan · Producer
- Eric Fellner · Producer
- Rachel Talalay · Producer
- Harry Gregson-Williams · Composer
- Trevor Brooker · Cinematographer
- John Fenner · Cinematographer
- David Freeman · Editor
- Nina Gold · Casting director
- Gemma Jackson · Production designer