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- BFI identifier471472
- Date1997 (Copyright)
1997-12-05 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom
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- SynopsisTen-year-old Peter Lender notices that small things keep disappearing from his home. He finds out that the culprits are a family of tiny people called the Clock family, who live under the floorboards, and he makes friends with Arietty, the little girl. When Peter and his family are moved out of their house by an evil lawyer, the Clock family are instrumental in helping them regain their home. (Synopsis) Based on the books by Mary Norton. About a family of tiny people who live beneath the floorboards of a house and "borrow" from its human inhabitants. When the human family are evicted by a scheming lawyer, the borrowers help them to recover their home. (Synopsis)
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- CreditsDirector: Peter Hewitt
Production Company: Working Title Films
Production Company: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
view all - CastJohn Goodman (Ocious Potter)
Jim Broadbent (Pod Clock)
Mark Williams (Exterminator Jeff)
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Title
The Borrowers (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/E710-F14B-DEEB-CBCD-1C45-HCategory
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view all - ArticlesEmpire n103 January 1998 - Credits, ReviewVariety 08 Dec 1997 - ReviewScreen International n1133 07 Nov 1997 - Credits, ReviewCuts n79 November 1997 - ArticleBroadcast 19 Dec 1997 - Article, Prod. Reportview all
- The Borrowers
Work - 471472 - 1997 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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