The Borrowers

The Borrowers1997

Stars: John Goodman, Mark Williams, Jim Broadbent, Celia Imrie
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Rating: PG
Runtime: 89 minutes

The Borrowers is a children's fantasy novel by the English author Mary Norton, published by Dent in 1952. It features a family of tiny people who live secretly in the walls and floors of an English house and "borrow" from the big people in order to … more »



Exterminator Jeff:
[look at the objects by the floorboards] Borrowers!

Ocious P. Potter:
You've seen this before?

Exterminator Jeff:
No, but I've heard the stories, but that's what I thought they were, just stories: the fly with the human head, the poker-playing rats, the giant radioactive cockroaches.

Ocious P. Potter:
Spare me the folklore, will you? Can you kill them or not?

Exterminator Jeff:
Yes. Extermination is my middle name. But why do you want me to exterminate the Borrowers?

Ocious P. Potter:
Because those little rats stole something very important from me. AND NOBODY STEALS FROM OCIOUS P. POTTER!

Exterminator Jeff:
You mean borrowed, don't you?

Ocious P. Potter:
What?

Exterminator Jeff:
Oh, well, they're Borrowers. They don't steal, they...

[Potter gives him a disapproved look]

Exterminator Jeff:
[goes serious] Right!

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