The Borrowers

The Borrowers

6.1IMDb Score
Released:1997-12-05
Genre:Adventure, Fantasy, Action, Comedy, Family
Duration:87 min
Country:United Kingdom, United States of America
Director:Peter Hewitt
Actors:John Goodman, Mark Williams, Jim Broadbent, Celia Imrie, Flora Newbigin
Production:Working Title Films, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment

Overview:

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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