The Borrowers
Little People. Big Trouble. Lots of fun.
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.
- Director
- Peter Hewitt
- Worldwide
- $23M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
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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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The numbers
Box Office & Release
The Borrowers returned 0.8× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $29M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $23M
- Release date
- Dec 5, 1997
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- MPAA rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States of America
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