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The Borrowers
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The Borrowers

1997-12-05 · 87 min · ★ 6.1

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.

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Directors
Peter Hewitt
Production companies
Working Title, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Countries
United Kingdom, United States of America
Status
Released
Budget
USD 29,000,000
Revenue
USD 22,619,699

Top Cast

John GoodmanJohn GoodmanOcious P. Potter
Mark WilliamsMark WilliamsExterminator Jeff
Jim BroadbentJim BroadbentPod Clock
Celia ImrieCelia ImrieHomily Clock
Flora NewbiginFlora NewbiginArrietty Clock
Tom FeltonTom FeltonPeagreen Clock
Raymond PickardSpiller
Bradley PierceBradley PiercePete Lender
Aden GillettAden GillettJoe Lender
Doon MackichanDoon MackichanVictoria Lender
Hugh LaurieHugh LaurieOfficer Steady
Ruby WaxRuby WaxTown Hall Clerk
Andrew DunfordDustbunny
Bob GoodyMinty
Patrick MoncktonSwag
Dick WardMilkman
George AntoniGeorge AntoniChauffeur
Alex WinterAlex WinterTV Gangster
Michael HewittTV Sergeant
Simon HewittTV Constable

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