The Borrowers (1973)

Directed by

Walter C. Miller

Genre

fantasy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 21m

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A family of tiny people called Borrowers live secretly under the floorboards of a Victorian house. They survive by taking small items from the human family above. One day, their hidden world is discovered by a human boy.

whimsicalgentlecozyold-fashionedadventurousfamily-friendlynostalgiclighthearted

What happens

The Borrowers is a Hallmark Hall of Fame TV special first broadcast in 1973 on NBC. The movie script was adapted from the 1952 Carnegie Medal-winning first novel of author Mary Norton's The Borrowers series: The Borrowers. The film stars Eddie Albert, Tammy Grimes and Judith Anderson. It was directed by Walter C. Miller. In 1974, the special was awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Children's Programming and was nominated for Outstanding Children's Special (producers Duane Bogie, Walt deFaria and Warren Lockhart), Outstanding Individual Achievement in Children's Programming (performer Judith Anderson), Outstanding Individual Achievement in Children's Programming (performer Juul Haalmeyer) and Outstanding Individual Achievement in Children's Programming (director Walter C. Miller). The special tells the story of the Clock Family, tiny people who live under the floorboards in a Victorian-era English house. This movie is presently in the public domain. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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