The Borrowers is a 1997 fantasy comedy film directed by Peter Hewitt and starring John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, Celia Imrie, Mark Williams, Hugh Laurie and Bradley Pierce. It is loosely based on the 1952 children's novel of the same name by author Mary Norton.

The house they share with a full-sized family named Lender, was once filled with other borrowers, but over time, they've moved away, leaving only the Clock family and their wistful memories of better days.

The Borrowers is a 1997 film from Working Title Films. Written by Gavin Scott and John Kamps after Mary Norton’s books The Borrowers, the film is directed by Peter Hewitt. The movie starts with young Pete Lender setting up traps around his house.

The Borrowers: Directed by Peter Hewitt. With John Goodman, Mark Williams, Jim Broadbent, Celia Imrie. A secret family of four-inch people living inside the walls of a house must save their home from an evil real estate developer.

We're Borrowers, and you're our bean. Beans provide you with things to borrow. But they'll squish you as soon as look at you. Who told you that? My dad. There are more of you? Just my dad, my mum, and my little brother. There used to be more of us, but they've gone away. We're the last of the Borrowers. We have to move. The house is being ...

Pete (Bradley Pierce) discovers and befriends a whole family of miniature people, the Clocks (also called the Borrowers), who purloin household knickknacks temporarily, as they maintain their diminutive existence under the floorboards of the Lenders’ first floor, trying not to be squished.

The humans leave and a family of tiny people ("Borrowers"), Pod Clock, Arrietty Clock and Peagreen Clock make their way through the kitchen to "borrow" the radio's battery. Arrietty, while treating herself with some ice cream in the freezer, is …

Pod Clock and his children, Arrietty and Peagreen, make their way through the kitchen to "borrow" a battery to bring back to his wife, Homily. Arrietty treats herself to ice cream in the freezer, and is accidentally trapped inside as the Lenders return.

Pod Clock and his children, Arrietty and Peagreen, make their way through the kitchen to "borrow" a battery to bring back to his wife, Homily. Arrietty treats herself to ice cream in the freezer, and is accidentally trapped inside as the Lenders return.

Surprisingly, Peter Hewitt’s 1997 film was the first big-screen adaptation of Mary Norton’s 1952 children’s novel; arriving not long after the BBC series, the Working Title production ditches much beyond the basic premise, instead devising a new story around the tiny Clock family and their “borrowing” habits and giving Arrietty a ...