The Borrowers (2011 film)

The Borrowers is a 2011 British television film starring Stephen Fry, Christopher Eccleston and Victoria Wood, based broadly on Mary Nortons 1952 novel The Borrowers.

Anxious to rescue her parents, Arriety argues with and leaves Spiller, but he follows and saves her from a street cleaning vehicle, and they seek safety by hiding in a miniature nativity scene at a church. Spiller explains to her why Pod had exiled himself from other Borrowers he had had to sacrifice his niece Eggletina to save the Borrower community, making him a reluctant hero. The two return to James house to seek his help.Pod and Homily try to escape, but Mildeye catches them and learns they can talk. He prepares to present them to the world the next day at an academic conference, seen trailered by James on the nightly BBC news. With James help, Spiller and Arrietty fly over the conference venue in James new model plane, a Christmas gift from his returned father Robert Shaun Dooley. They drop from parachutes, and climb through air vents and ducting to the lab. ........

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