The Borrowers (1997) — AI Story Visualization

The Borrowers (1997) Poster

Plot Analysis Summary

A tale of tiny people surviving in a human world while outsmarting a greedy lawyer to save their home.

Story Structure — 4 Plot Phases

The Hidden World

The Heist and the Hunt

Dairy Desperation

City Hall Showdown

The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer Ocious P. Potter steals the will granting title to the house, which he plans to demolish in order to build apartments. The Lenders are forced to move, and the Clocks face the risk of being exposed to the normal-sized world.

Directed by

Peter Hewitt

Key Cast

Rating: 6/10 (524 votes)