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The Borrowers (1997) [PG]

Release Date:
December 5, 1997

Original Title:
The Borrowers

Alternate Titles:
Le monde des borrowers
Le petit monde des emprunteurs
Os Pequeninos
Piadimužíci
Pidilidi
Здобувайки
Позичайки
寄居大侠

Genres:
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy

Production Companies:
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Working Title Films

Production Countries:
United Kingdom | United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AU: PG  CZ: U  DE: 6  FR: U  GB: U  US: PG 

Runtime: 86

Little People. Big Trouble. Lots of fun.

Overview from TheMovieDB

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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Art Direction:
Andrew Ackland-Snow

Casting:
Nina Gold

Co-Producer:
Liza Chasin
Debra Hayward

Costume Design:
Marie France

Director:
Peter Hewitt

Director of Photography:
Trevor Brooker
John Fenner

Editor:
David Freeman

Electrician:
Jim Smart

Executive Producer:
Walt deFaria

Finance:
Michele Tandy

Hairstylist:
Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou
Susan Parkinson

Line Producer:
Mary Richards

Novel:
Mary Norton

Original Music Composer:
Harry Gregson-Williams

Producer:
Tim Bevan
Eric Fellner
Rachel Talalay

Production Design:
Gemma Jackson

Screenplay:
Gavin Scott
John Kamps

Second Assistant Director:
Sara Desmond

Set Decoration:
Careen Hertzog

Stunts:
Greg Powell

Supervising Art Director:
Jim Morahan

Wigmaker:
Terry Jarvis

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