The Borrowers
488 reviews
Adventure/Fantasy
1h 27m
1997
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...
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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.
- DirectorPeter Hewitt
- Release5 December 1997
- Genre
- Duration1h 27m
- Budget$29,000,000
- Revenue$22,619,699
- Rate488 reviews
- Productions
Working Title Films, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Cast

John Goodman
Ocious P. Potter

Mark Williams
Exterminator Jeff

Jim Broadbent
Pod Clock

Celia Imrie
Homily Clock

Flora Newbigin
Arrietty Clock

Tom Felton
Peagreen Clock

Bradley Pierce
Pete Lender

Aden Gillett
Joe Lender

Doon Mackichan
Victoria Lender

Hugh Laurie
Officer Steady

Ruby Wax
Town Hall Clerk

George Antoni
Chauffeur

Alex Winter
TV Gangster

David Freeman
TV Constable

Stacey Gough
Borrower (uncredited)
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