Product Details

• Actors: Ian Holm, Penelope Wilton, Rebecca Callard, Paul Cross, Daniel Newman
• Directors: John Henderson
• Writers: Mary Norton, Richard Carpenter
• Producers: Fiona Morham, Grainne Marmion, Tim Bevan, Walt deFaria
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Turner Home Ent
• VHS Release Date: September 10, 1996
• Run Time: 164 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304140827
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #259,481 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Amazing adaptation - shoddy tape., August 27, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Borrowers [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The BBC adaptation is fantastic, with beautiful performances, production quality, and an unerring faithfulness to the book in spirit, word, and deed. If only the tape were as good. Turner Video's done the shoddy trick of putting this three-hour production on a single tape by "recording" it in EP/SLP. As a result, the picture quality, while watchable, leaves a lot to be desired, and the durability of the tape is questionable. I've owned a copy for only a few years, and it's already got rainbowing deterioration.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best kids movies out!, January 8, 2000

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Sam McNear "Choose love" (Beaverton, Oregon USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Borrowers [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a movie that can hold up to anyone's standards. It's clean, meaning no bad language or sex of any kind. If you ever read the books you will enjoy these. no movie is as good as the book, but this one does a good job!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the Borrowers, November 18, 2002

A Kid's Review

This review is from: The Borrowers [VHS] (VHS Tape)

My name is hannah enos and will tell you about the borrowers.The borrowers is a wonderful family movie that i am sure children and adults alike will like. one of my faviorite sayings on the borrowers is: " human beans are for borrowers, like bread is for butter". the borrowers have great caractores as well as actors and actress. some of them are arrietty(rebbecca callard), homily (penelope wilton), pod (ian holm) spiller, and george.in the first movie the borrowers live under the grandfather clock,(that is why they are called the "clocks")until arrietty befriends a "human bean", then the clock famliy must flee for safety into the world where there are awful things like rats,weasles and crows, plus there are thousands of bugs which homily smiply hates. but then they meet spiller and it may seem all there troubles are over but wait, are they? the only way to is to whatch the "borrowers".