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Gag Gifts, Occasion Gifts - The Borrowers (Digitally Remastered) (Full Screen Edition)
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List Price: $14.98
Our Price: $4.30
Your Save: $ 10.68 ( 71% )
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Digiview Productions
Starring: Eddie Albert, Tammy Grimes, Judith Anderson
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Average Customer Rating:   
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Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0872322001276
Format: Full Screen
Label: Digiview Productions
Manufacturer: Digiview Productions
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 2004
Publisher: Digiview Productions
Region Code: 0
Release Date: 2004-04-04
Running Time: 81
Studio: Digiview Productions
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Editorial Reviews:
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Digitally Remastered - The Borrowers tells the story of the inches-tall Clock Family, led by patriarch Pod (Eddie Albert, best remembered from TV's Green Acres) and Homily (Tammy Grimes). Judith Anderson plays Aunt Sophie, an invalid, whose eight year old nephew comes to live in her Victorian mansion. While peeking under the floorboards, what should he see, but the 'Borrowers', so named because of their propensity to live off bits and pieces 'borrowed' from the big people. Now discovered, the 'Borrowers' must scramble to avoid being captured and displayed as curiosities. 'The Borrowers' is based on the book by Mary Norton of 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks' fame.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: I remember when. . .
Comment: I loved this movie when I was a kid. It always played the week before Christmas. I was disappointed that my kids never got to see this and was happy when I found it on Amazon. The copy that I received was OK. It definitely seems to have been recorded off the original film scratchy picture and sound at times, but just as I remembered with a little color.
Not as flashy as the new special effects, my teenagers were bored with it. But, I am glad to see at Christmas every year.
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Summary: Borrowers that Steal
Comment: Borrowers (1973)This product was mailed and delivered promptly, as agreed by the seller. However, the product itself was terrible. I didn't like this one at all. There was absolutely no substance to the story line. Even the version starring John Goodman was better than this one.
When comparing the one starring Eddie Albert to the version starring Ian Holm, THERE IS NO COMPARISON. The one with Ian Holm was excellent family viewing, and as an adult, I even view it alone. I love it.
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Summary: It's a poor video quality DVD, but it's not the actors fault.
Comment: It states "The Borrowers (Digitally Remastered)", but it's far from Remastered. Don't blame the actors for the poor video quality, the actors did their jobs well enough long before DVD's were a technology. This version on DVD looks like someone copied an old well used decades old VHS tape directly to DVD. The movie is simple clean entertainment for children, but the quality of the video on this particular DVD is poor and unenjoyable.
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Summary: DEFINITELY NOT DIGITALLY REMASTERED!
Comment: This DVD version of The Borrowers has NOT been digitally remastered, no matter what they say on the cover. It is simply a out and out lie. The color is horrible and the film is extremely grainy. I would still recommend it because it is the only "classic" version available. I'm looking forward to the longer (and better) version with Ian Holm to be released on DVD.
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Summary: Fun, close to the book
Comment: When a sickly boy from Boston is sent to recuperate with his eccentric aunt in the country, he makes a startling discovery - there is a family of little people living under the floorboards, a family of Borrowers. The Borrowers who live in this spacious house are named the Clocks (father Pod, mother Homily and daughter Arrietty Clock), and they live by "borrowing" what they need from the "human beans" that share their house with them. But when the suspicious housekeeper catches sight of the Borrowers, she will stop at nothing to see them caught! [Color, released in 1973, with a running time of 1:21.]
This is a fun movie, which is remarkably close to Mary Norton's wonderful book, The Borrowers. Indeed, I am quite sad that they didn't go on to make sequels, which would have covered her other Borrower books. But, one must be grateful for what one does have.
Overall, I found this to be a fun and interesting movie that I could share with the whole family. Eddie Albert does an excellent job as Pod Clock, and even though the special effects are not that great, they are as well done as the existing technology allowed, and the wonderful story carries everything along. So, let me just say that I loved this movie, and highly recommend it to everyone with children, or who are just young at heart.
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