The Borrowers poster
Director Peter Hewitt
Screenplay Gavin Scott, John Kamps

The Borrowers

Tagline: Little People. Big Trouble. Lots of fun.

Release Date: 1997-12-05

Duration: 86 minutes

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.

Casting

  • Tom Felton
    Peagreen Clock
  • Jim Broadbent
    Pod Clock
  • Hugh Laurie
    Officer Steady
  • Mark Williams
    Exterminator Jeff
  • John Goodman
    Ocious P. Potter
  • Celia Imrie
    Homily Clock
  • Bradley Pierce
    Pete Lender
  • Aden Gillett
    Joe Lender
  • Flora Newbigin
    Arrietty Clock
  • Alex Winter
    TV Gangster