The Return of the Borrowers
| The Return of the Borrowers | |
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| Written by |
Richard Carpenter Mary Norton (novel) |
| Directed by | John Henderson |
| Starring |
Ian Holm Penelope Wilton Rebecca Callard |
| Music by | Howard Goodall |
| Country of origin |
 United Kingdom
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| Original language(s) | English |
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| Producer(s) | Grainne Marmion |
| Cinematography | Clive Tickner |
| Editor(s) | David Yardley |
| Running time | 166 min. |
| Production company(s) | BBC |
| Distributor | Turner Home Entertainment |
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| Preceded by | The Borrowers |
The Return of the Borrowers is a BBC TV miniseries first broadcast in 1993 on BBC2 and then later on American television station TNT. The miniseries is adapted from the third and fourth novels of author Mary Norton's The Borrowers series: The Borrowers Afloat and The Borrowers Aloft, respectively.
The miniseries is the sequel to The Borrowers, another TV miniseries that first aired in 1992 also on BBC2 and TNT. Like the first series, every episode (except the last one) ended on a cliffhanger.
Both series follow the Clocks, a family of tiny people who have fled from their home under the floorboards in an old manor into the English countryside.
Once again the Clock Family (a teenage girl named Arriety and her parents, Pod and Homily), tiny "borrowers" who live in a cottage of regular sized human beings, are forced to find a new place to live when they learn of the upcoming departure of the humans in whose house they reside. Hendreary, Lupy, Eggletina remain behind at the cottage. With the help of their friend Spiller, Arreitty, Pod and Homily escape through the house drain system and temporarily move to a kettle Spiller has looked after. Spiller tells the Clock family about a model village called Little Fordham which is down the stream. Pod and Arrietty go back to the Manor where George provides them with a "boat" (which is actually a large cutlery holder, a pin for an anchor and a knife for steering).
Meanwhile, Pod's nephews Ditchley and Ilrick trap Pod and Homily in the kettle as a joke by jamming the lid on with a stick, then leave. A storm comes and the kettle is swept down the stream. A rock knocks the stick off the lid and Pod and Homily manage to get out of the kettle before it hits a large stick suspended across two rocks. The next morning, Spiller and Arrietty find the kettle sunk near the bank just as Ditchley and Ilrick arrive, realizing their joke went too far. Pod and Homily arrive and Pod interrogates Ditchley and Ilrick for their actions and scares them off. The Clock family sail down the stream overnight and are nearly caught by Mild Eye, who is stopped by a Police Officer who presumably arrests him. The Borrowers arrive in Little Fordham where they try to live in secret.
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