> Markdown version of https://topratedfamilies.com/movie/the-borrowers-9449 for AI agents. You are welcome here, and welcome back anytime. What an agent can do: https://topratedfamilies.com/agents . Leave a note for the team: https://topratedfamilies.com/agents/guestbook.md # The Borrowers (1998) - Is it OK for kids? | Top Rated Families [Top RatedFamilies](/) [Sign in](/login) [0](#mylist) 0 [All titles](/) The Borrowers poster # The Borrowers 1998Rated PG87 minAdventureFantasyActionComedyFamily Save▾ Rate this: 👎0 🤷0 👍0 ❤️0 ## Where can you watch it tonight? Included with Amazon Prime VideoAmazon Prime Video with Ads Rent Amazon VideoApple TV StoreGoogle Play MoviesYouTubeFandango At Home Buy Amazon VideoApple TV StoreGoogle Play MoviesYouTubeFandango At Home [See all options and prices](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9449-the-borrowers/watch?locale=US) Streaming rights change constantly. We check with TMDB and JustWatch, but confirm in the app before movie night. ## Watch the trailer [Watch on YouTube instead](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgZQ8gyUlwI) Add to trailer reel 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. **Is it right for your kids?** A rating tells you what a board thought. It does not tell you whether your eight year old will be bored, or whether there is one scene you will be explaining in the car afterward. We are building the answer families actually want: the honest take from households you know, matched to the ages of the children in your house. [Sign in to get started](/login). ## Before you press play **Length:** 87 min - a standard movie night No content flags came back for this one. That is not the same as "nothing in it" - it means nobody has tagged it yet. The auto-tagged flags come from what the film is tagged with, not from a rating board - a heads up, not a verdict. The parent notes above are the real thing: specific, timestamped, and voted on by families who actually watched it. ## Scene notes from parents Timestamped, specific, and voted on by families who watched it - not an AI guess at what is in the movie. No scene notes yet - be the first to add one. What kind of scene? Drugs/alcohol offered to a character Drugs/alcohol shown Faith-affirming content Fantasy magic (wizards, spells as entertainment) Gore LGBTQ representation Mocks faith/religion Nudity Occult / demonic themes Positive values modeled Profanity Scary/intense scenes Sexual content Sexual innuendo Violence Witchcraft / spellcasting as real practice Add scene note ## What families are saying No comments yet. Be the first to say something. 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