The Borrowers(Movie, 1997)

Name: The Borrowers
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Action, Comedy, Kids & Family
Released: 1997
Duration: T01:26:00
Rating: 3

| 1h 26min | Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Action, Comedy, Kids & Family

Rating: 3.0/5 (with 226 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

Official Trailer(Trailer, 1:31)

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

Additional Information

Production countries: United Kingdom (UK), United States of America (USA)

Based on the work of: Mary Norton ("The Borrowers")

Made by: Working Title Films, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment

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 US: 02/13/1998 (World premiere: 12/05/1997)

Cast: John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, Celia Imrie, Flora Newbigin, Mark Williams, Hugh Laurie, Bradley Pierce, Tom Felton, Raymond Pickard, Aden Gillett, Patrick Monckton, Ruby Wax, Alex Winter, Doon Mackichan

Director: Peter Hewitt

Producer: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Rachel Talalay

Screenwriter: Gavin Scott, John Kamps

Film Editor: David Freeman

Composer: Harry Gregson-Williams

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"

Keywords: real estate, dwarf, household, lawyer, based on childrens book, childs point of view, little people

Budget: 29,000,000 USD

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The Borrowers(Movie, 1997)

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