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The Borrowers (Original title)
Dates: 1997 (Copyright), 05 December 1997 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Peter Hewitt

Synopsis: Ten-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.

Genres:
Children's, Fantasy

Subject:
Eviction
Releases
Date: 1997Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - Sound - DolbyRuntime: 87 mins Dialogue (original): English