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The Borrowers(Movie, 1997)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 26min | Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Action, Comedy, Kids & Family
The BorrowersRating: 3.0/5 (with 226226 votes)
The Borrowers is a 1997 fantasy comedy film directed by Peter Hewitt and starring John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, Celia Imrie, Mark Williams, Hugh Laurie and Bradley Pierce. It is loosely based on the 1952 children's novel of the same name by author Mary Norton. In 1998, the film was nominated for Best British Film in the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards, but lost to Gary Oldman's film Nil by Mouth. Some of the film's scenes were shot on location in the village of Theale, near Reading, Berkshire, where all of the buildings and shops in the High Street were painted dark green. When the film was released in the United Kingdom, it opened on No. 2, behind Alien Resurrection. The next week, the film regained the position, though under Tomorrow Never Dies. ()
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About The Borrowers

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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Trailer for The Borrowers + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

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Official Trailer (Trailer) | Fan Musical Compilation (Clip) | German Trailer (Trailer, DE)

Additional Information

Based on the work of: Mary Norton ("The Borrowers")
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 23 languages: Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Latvian (LV), Burmese (MY), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 12/11/1997 (World premiere: 12/05/1997)
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Os Pequeninos"
"Le petit monde des emprunteurs"
"寄居大侠"
"Pidilidi"
"Le monde des borrowers"
"Piadimužíci"
"Здобувайки"
"Позичайки"

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Other movies with this title: The Borrowers (CA/US, 1973), The Borrowers (GB, 2011)

WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:5359, Added: 02/14/2018, Last updated: 03/01/2024