When was the borrowers film made

Celia Imrie as Homily Clock. Tom Felton as Peagreen Clock. Jim Broadbent as Pod Clock. Flora Newbigin as Arrietty Clock. John Goodman as Ocious Potter. Aden Gillett as Joe Lender. Reviews The Borrowers. Roger Ebert February 13, Now streaming on:. Powered by JustWatch. Science Fiction.

Play trailer Adventure Comedy Family. Director Peter Hewitt. Top credits Director Peter Hewitt. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer The Borrowers. Photos Top cast Edit. John Goodman Ocious P. Potter as Ocious P. Raymond Pickard Spiller as Spiller. Andrew Dunford Dustbunny as Dustbunny. Bob Goody Minty as Minty. Dick Ward Milkman as Milkman. Peter Hewitt. We are unable to provide students with essays or other writing assignments. The Borrowers book. The boy told Arrietty that he thought the other Borrowers were dead What does the last name of the Clock's mean?

John Henderson had met Mary Norton, who told him she wanted the film to be from the Borrowers' perspective, not a human one, which made filming much more complex. In the scenes we filmed on the blue set, if we didn't lift our leg high enough to get over an imaginary object, we'd have to do it all over.

In one scene, we were carried away on a balloon made of hankies, and when we filmed it we had to clamber in and out of a non-existent basket with very precise dimensions. It was a challenge to react to things if they weren't physically there. When a cat was trying to swipe us out from under a clock, its paw was a stick with a rag on it, and it took some doing to act terrified of that. Blue screens are particularly tiring on the eyes, too, so we all had tremendous headaches by the end of the day.

Moreover, my dress was made of a fabric that made it impossible to sit down, and since I had to be sewn into it, I couldn't take it off between takes. The set for Pod [played by Holm], Homily and Arrietty's house was wonderfully surreal. Our bed was four pencils with blotting paper on top, the coal scuttle was a mustard pot and pennies were bigger than dinner plates and so difficult to lift.

They would often have to clear the set when we were shooting because people would be laughing so much. It was very physically demanding. When the Borrowers are swept down a drain, fire hoses had to be trained on us and we were washed down a tunnel.

It was so terrifying we didn't have to act — and we had to get it right first time because there were no spare costumes and our makeup took four hours to apply.