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The Borrowers

Rating:PG (For mild peril and some crude humor)
Genre:Family, Comedy
Release Date:February 13, 1998
Running time:83 minutes
Cast:John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, Mark Williams (I), Hugh Laurie, Bradley Pierce
Director:Peter Hewitt (I)
Producer:Walt DeFaria
Writer:Mary Norton
Distributor:PolyGram

Description: Mary Norton's children's books about a family of four-inch-tall people who share accommodations with giant "beans" (as in "human bein's") are brought to the screen in beautifully scaled detail, but neither the story nor the characters come alive.

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