Brick-thick chunk of whimsy, from the children's books of Mary Norton, about a species of wee folk known as Borrowers, one family of whom infests the house of the Lenders in a rose-hued, time-warped fantasyland. The Lilliputians and Brobdingnagians coexist well enough in the same space until they are required to interact: the scale is okay, the timing is off. Easier, no doubt, on the page, with or without motionless illustrations. The Bard, neglecting only to capitalize the nouns, gave out some pertinent words of advice through the big mouth of Polonius: "Neither a borrower nor a lender be." With Jim Broadbent, John Goodman, Mark Williams, and Hugh Laurie; directed by Peter Hewitt. (1998) — Duncan Shepherd
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