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The Borrowers

Name: The Borrowers
Director: Peter Hewitt
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Action, Comedy, Family
Released: 1997-12-05
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 5.9
Cast: John Goodman, Mark Williams, Jim Broadbent, Celia Imrie, Flora Newbigin

1997 · 1h 27m · Adventure, Fantasy, Action, Comedy, Family

IMDb 5.9 RT 73%

Skip it—this is a forgettable family flick with a paint-by-numbers plot about tiny people and a cartoonish villain that's been done better elsewhere. Unless you're desperate to occupy restless kids for 90 minutes, your time is better spent on literally any Pixar film.

Plot

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.

Director: Peter Hewitt

Cast: John Goodman, Mark Williams, Jim Broadbent, Celia Imrie, Flora Newbigin

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