The Borrowers (1997 film)
- John Goodman: Ocious P. Potter
- Jim Broadbent: Pod Clock
- Celia Imrie: Homily Clock
- Flora Newbigin: Arrietty Clock ( " Ett " )
- Tom Felton: Peagreen Clock
- Bradley Pierce: Pete Lender
- Ruby Wax: City Hall employees
- Hugh Laurie: Officer Oliver Steady
- Mark Williams: Jeff, the exterminator
A The Borrowers (Original Title: The Borrowers ) is a US-amerikanisch/britischer movie from 1997 was directed by Peter Hewitt, the screenplay was written by Gavin Scott on the basis of the novel The Borrowers ( The Borrowers ) by Mary Norton from the year. in 1952.
Action
The action was based in a world that is reminiscent of the 1940s. The Lender family shares their home, without knowing it, with the Borger family clock. The Lenders are out of the house, which they are supposed to inherit from her aunt, take off, because the will can not be find. Behind this is the greedy lawyer Ocious P. Potter. The House wants to acquire land and to tear it down and build a new apartment complex on it. The Borrowers, about 10cm wide, red-haired " brownies " are called so because they borrow the needed items from the budget of " broom " normal-sized people. Among the borrowers, there is the group of " Drinnis " and the " Draußis ". Family Clock belongs to the first group because they only lives in the house of the broom and this never leaves. The older daughter, Arrietty and her younger brother Peagreen grow up with the knowledge that they are the last of their kind.
Arrietty befriends with Pete, the child of the human family. Pete tried to smuggle the borrower in a box into the new house. Move the box is destroyed in the cargo space of the moving car and Arrietty and Peagreen fall out of the car. They come back into the house, where they find the lawyer Ocious P. Potter, who was the testament that the aunt has deposited in a hidden wall safe appropriates. You can bring the important document in their possession and are now on the run from him and looking after their parents and the new house. From then on, the cat and mouse game starts at the will. The children are unhappy separated in their flight. Arrietty but receives help from Swag, a Draußi and experiences so that there is more to Borger. The Borrowers are also supported by Jeff, the exterminator and Officer steady.
At the end of Potter is defeated by thousands of borrowers and loses his mind while family Lenders get back to her house and feeds back the clocks there.
Awards
The film was nominated in two categories for the film Young Artist Award in 1999. He won the Motion Picture Sound Editors Award ( Golden Reel Award ) for the sound effects. For the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award, he was nominated in two categories.
More films
In 1992, a British TV series called The Borrowers from a screenplay by Richard Carpenter, in which Ian Holm played the lead role. The series was continued as The Return of the Borrowers 1993. 2010 appeared a Japanese anime version of Studio Ghibli under the title Arrietty - The Secret World of Borger. 2011 originated in the UK, the TV movie The Borrowers with Christopher Eccleston.