6.1 Score

1997 • 1h 27min • PG • Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Family

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"Little People. Big Trouble. Lots of fun."

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.

IMDb 5.9

RT 74%

Director

Peter Hewitt

Writer

Gavin Scott

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John Goodman

Ocious P. Potter

Mark Williams

Exterminator Jeff

Jim Broadbent

Pod Clock

Celia Imrie

Homily Clock

Flora Newbigin

Arrietty Clock

Tom Felton

Peagreen Clock

Raymond Pickard

Spiller

Bradley Pierce

Pete Lender

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Jim Broadbent Pod Clock

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Raymond Pickard Spiller

Bradley Pierce Pete Lender

Aden Gillett Joe Lender

Doon Mackichan Victoria Lender

Hugh Laurie Officer Steady

Ruby Wax Town Hall Clerk

Andrew Dunford Dustbunny

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