A case for the borrowers

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Movie
German title A case for the borrowers
Original title The Borrowers
Country of production USA / UK
original language English
Publishing year 1997
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Peter Hewitt
script Gavin Scott
production Walt deFaria
Tim Bevan
Eric Fellner
music Harry Gregson-Williams
camera Trevor Brooker
cut David Freeman
occupation

A case for the borrowers (original title: The Borrowers ) is a US / British feature film from 1997 . The Director led Peter Hewitt , the writer wrote Gavin Scott , based on the novel The Borrowers ( The Borrowers ) by Mary Norton from the year 1952 .

action

The action was set in a world that is reminiscent of the 1940s. Without knowing it, the Lender family shares their house with the Borger Clock family. The Lenders are supposed to move out of the house they were supposed to inherit from their aunt, because the will cannot be found. Behind this is the greedy lawyer Ocious P. Potter, who wants to appropriate the house and property in order to tear it down and build a new apartment complex on it. The borrowers , about 10 cm tall, red-haired " Heinzelmännchen ", call themselves that because they borrow the items they need from the household of the "brooms", the people . Among the Borgern there are the groups of "Drinnis" and "Draussis". The Clock family belongs to the first group because they only live in the House of Brooms and never leave it. Elderly daughter Arrietty and younger brother Peagreen grow up believing that they are the last of their kind.

Arrietty befriends Pete, the child of the human family. Pete tries to smuggle the borrowers into the new house in a box. On the way, the box in the moving van is destroyed, Arrietty and Peagreen fall out of the car. They go back into the house, where they witness how Ocious P. Potter appropriates the will that his aunt has deposited in a hidden wall safe. They can save the important document that Potter wants to set on fire and from then on they are on the run from him and in search of their parents and the new house. A game of cat and mouse about the will begins under the floor and behind the walls of the old house. In town, on the way to their new home and still being followed by Potter, the children are unhappily separated. Arrietty receives help from Swag, a Draussi, and learns that there are more borrowers. She goes with him to the dairy to free Peagreen, who is trapped in a milk bottle. Pete and the Borger parents and Potter, who is temporarily recovering the will, also arrive there. Pete and the borrowers are supported by Jeff, the exterminator, and Officer Steady.

Pete and Jeff lure Potter into a trap at City Hall, where Potter is about to request the Lender House be demolished. Locked in a storage room, Potter is tied up by Swag and his friends. Thousands more borrowers arrive and show themselves to Potter. The man who was arrested by Steady is laughed at at the police station for his stories, while the Lender family gets their house back and moves back in with the Clocks.

Awards

The film was nominated in 1999 for the Young Artist Award in two categories . He won the Motion Picture Sound Editors Award ( Golden Reel Award ) for the sound effects . He was nominated in two categories for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award .

Further films

In 1992, a British TV series called The Borrowers was created based on a script by Richard Carpenter , in which Ian Holm took the lead. In 1993 the series continued as The Return of the Borrowers . In 2010, a Japanese anime version by Studio Ghibli was released under the title Arrietty - The Wondrous World of Borrowers . In 2011, the TV film Die fantastische Welt der Borger with Christopher Eccleston was made in Great Britain .

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