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The Borrowers | 
| Director: John Henderson
Actors: Ian Holm, Penelope Wilton, Rebecca Callard, Paul Cross, Daniel Newman
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Category: Video
List Price: $14.98
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 14824
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 164 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0780625536
UPC: 053939656633
EAN: 9780780625532
ASIN: 0780625536
Theatrical Release Date: November 27, 1993
Release Date: March 2, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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It needs to be on Zone I DVD PLEASE!! December 17, 2005
B. Kimble (San Diego)
The British version of this delightful series is far better than the American re-make (even though I like John Goodman).As previously noted , we could do with out the narratives by boring Mr. Lewis ( Gerard Butler would make a much better narrator),
I would love to have this for my twin grandchildren to enjoy when they get a bit older (they just turned 3).
 Amazing adaptation - shoddy tape. August 27, 2003
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
The BBC adaptation is fantastic, with beautiful performances, production quality, and an unerring faithfulness to the book in spirit, word, and deed. If only the tape were as good. Turner Video's done the shoddy trick of putting this three-hour production on a single tape by "recording" it in EP/SLP. As a result, the picture quality, while watchable, leaves a lot to be desired, and the durability of the tape is questionable. I've owned a copy for only a few years, and it's already got rainbowing deterioration.
The best childrens movie January 15, 2003
Patricia K. Enos
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
the borrowers is a very good movie that i like
the Borrowers November 19, 2002
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
My name is hannah enos and will tell you about the borrowers.The borrowers is a wonderful family movie that i am sure children and adults alike will like. one of my faviorite sayings on the borrowers is: " human beans are for borrowers, like bread is for butter". the borrowers have great caractores as well as actors and actress. some of them are arrietty(rebbecca callard), homily (penelope wilton), pod (ian holm) spiller, and george.in the first movie the borrowers live under the grandfather clock,(that is why they are called the "clocks")until arrietty befriends a "human bean", then the clock famliy must flee for safety into the world where there are awful things like rats,weasles and crows, plus there are thousands of bugs which homily smiply hates. but then they meet spiller and it may seem all there troubles are over but wait, are they? the only way to is to whatch the "borrowers".
Wonderful Adaptation May 14, 2001
John D. Cofield
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
The Borrowers is a wonderful adaptation of the first two books in Mary Norton's tales of small people who live in the houses of (and borrow from) "human beans". The films are beautifully made with some fine actors (Ian Holm, Sian Phillips) and do a great job of capturing the secretive lives of the Borrowers and of the Edwardian landscapes in which the books are set. The musical accompaniment is also wonderfully atmospheric The only bad thing about this film is the wholly unnecessary and boring interruptions by Richard Lewis, who is never entertaining and totally unsuitable as a narrator/introducer for such a fine series. Buy the videos and fast forward through the Lewis parts!
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