The Borrowers

The Borrowers

Movie |

Household | Dwarf

  • Duration: 1h 26min
  • Music: Harry Gregson-Williams
  • Award(s): Golden Reel 1999 (Won)
    BAFTA Film 1998 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: The Monkey King, Nimona
  • Story:
    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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5.9/10
IMDb

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STORY AND RATINGS

Story
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.
Ratings

5.9/10

IMDb

AWARDS

Won
Golden Reel Award

Best Sound Editing Foreign Feature | 1999 | Adrian

Nominations
BAFTA Film Award

Best Special Effects | 1998 | Peter

Young Artist Award

Best Performance in a Feature Film Young Ensemble | 1999 | Mark

Best Family Feature Comedy | 1999

BOX OFFICE

Budget 29,000,000 USD

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

During filming, the producers announced that this was the biggest family film to be shot on UK soundstages since " Chitty Chitty Bang Bang".

Steven Spielberg was first approached to direct this movie. But he turned it down because he felt that the gross out humor was too over the top and didn't fit in the story and he was also too busy working on The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997).

Every vehicle shown in the film is a Morris 1000 Minor. Even a custom-built 'stretched' limo.

In the books Arriety is the only child of the Clocks. Furthermore, Peagreen only appeared in one book (The Borrowers Avenged) and was an adult.

Mr. Potter's eyebrows were also supposed to be ripped off in the film, with his mustache. However John Goodman didn't want to shave his eyebrows as he was worried about how long they'd take to grow back in case they didn't grow back by the time he was supposed to be filming his sitcom Roseanne.

Popular Dialogues

"Peagreen Clock: Great, just great. I've been outside for two minutes and I'm covered in POO..."

"Pod Clock: [Repeated Line] A Borrower is quiet, conscientious, and inconspicuous. We don't steal; we borrow."