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Aside from the first minor "captured by humans" bit, they are captured one major time, when a human husband and wife decide to put the Borrowers on display in a glass house where they will not be allowed any privacy. Luckily, they manage to escape.
An enjoyable series that made for a pretty good couple of movies, starting with a 1973 made-for-TV Hallmark hall of fame movie. The 1997 film starring John Goodman takes a far more urban setup, overturns the idea that the Borrowers have a low population (the ending is rather like that of ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]''), and in general is not as faithful to the books as the original movies were. It at least avoided being [[In Name Only]] by keeping the members of the Clock family more-or-less true to their book characterizations, although even there they recast Peagreen (a minor character in the books) as Arrietty's [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]. It also pretty much dropped the original plot in favor of one centering around the scheme of Goodman's [[Amoral Attorney]] villain to demolish the house where the Borrowers live. It also features a young [[Tom Felton]].
A [[The BBC|BBC]] TV movie adaptation was released for Christmas 2011, featuring [[Stephen Fry]] and [[Christopher Eccleston]]. It's even more of an [[In Name Only]] adaptation, taking place in a modern-day city, featuring a mostly original plot and drastically altered characters -- the most notable ones being Spiller, who's been changed from [[Noble Savage]] to a [[Troubled but Cute]] biker boy in a red leather jacket, and the human Mildeye, who's gone from an [[Roma|evil, brutal Rom]] to an evil-but-bumbling professor played by [[Stephen Fry]]. Like the 1997 movie, it completely goes away from the "borrowers as a dying race" idea; here there turns out to be enough of them in one place to populate an entire underground city (built on the platform and partly on the tracks of an abandoned railway station). The critics noted, though, that while the movie had very little to do with Mary Norton's books, it still stayed fairly true to the themes and spirit of them, making it more of a [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]. ''Extremely'' pragmatic.
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