The Borrowers

1997

PG

1h 27m

IMDb RATING
6.0/10
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Adventure
Fantasy
Action
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.

Directors

Writers

Gavin Scott(screenplay by)
Mary Norton(novel by)
John Kamps(screenplay by)
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John Goodman
Ocious P. Potter
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Mark Williams
Exterminator Jeff
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Jim Broadbent
Pod Clock
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Celia Imrie
Homily Clock
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Flora Newbigin
Arrietty Clock
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Tom Felton
Peagreen Clock
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Bradley Pierce
Pete Lender
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Aden Gillett
Joe Lender
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Doon Mackichan
Victoria Lender
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Hugh Laurie
Officer Steady
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Ruby Wax
Town Hall Clerk
Dick Ward
Milkman
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George Antoni
Chauffeur
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Alex Winter
TV Gangster

Directors

Writers

Gavin Scott(screenplay by)
Mary Norton(novel by)
John Kamps(screenplay by)

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Details

Release date

December 5, 1997 (United States)

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Language

English

Production companies

Working Title Films
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment

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Box office

Budget

$29,000,000

Gross worldwide

$22,619,699

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