“Little People. Big Trouble. Lots of fun.”
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.
Directed by Peter Hewitt
Written by Gavin Scott, John Kamps, Mary Norton
Produced by Rachel Talalay, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner
Box OfficeBudget: $29.0MRevenue: $22.6M
About The Borrowers
The Borrowers is a adventure, fantasy, action, comedy, family film released in 1997 exploring themes of dwarf, household, lawyer, based on children's book, little people, child's point of view. Directed by Peter Hewitt, it stars John Goodman, Mark Williams, Jim Broadbent. 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.