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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.A [[The BBC|BBC]] TV movie adaptation was released for Christmas 2011, featuring [[Stephen Fry]] and [[Christopher Eccleston]]. It's ateven leastmore avoidedof beingan [[In Name Only]] byadaptation, keepingtaking theplace membersin ofa themodern-day Clockcity, familyfeaturing more-or-lessa truemostly tooriginal theirplot and drastically altered characters. The first book characterizations,has althoughalso evenbeen thereadapted theyinto recastan Peagreenanimated (amovie minorby character[[Studio Ghibli]], titled ''[[The Borrower Arrietty]]'' (released in the books)US as ''The Secret World of Arrietty's'). [[AnnoyingAnd Youngerthe Fandom Rejoiced|And there was much Siblingrejoicing]]. ItThis alsoadaptation prettyis muchone droppedof the originalmore plotfaithful inadaptations favorout ofthere, one centering aroundcapturing the schemespirit of Goodman'sthe [[Amoraloriginal Attorney]]book villaindespite tointroducing demolisha the housecharacter wherefrom the Borrowerssecond live.and Itending also featureswith a youngscene [[Tomfrom Felton]]the third.
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.
The Beeb had previously run a couple of miniseries in the nineties that were more faithful adaptations of the books.
The first book has also been adapted into an animated movie by [[Studio Ghibli]], titled ''[[The Borrower Arrietty]]'' (released in the US as ''The Secret World of Arrietty''). [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|And there was much rejoicing.]]
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