In this very special episode of Adapt or Perish, we get REAL small and discuss the classic children’s book The Borrowers!
For this episode, we read and watched:
- Mary Norton’s original 1952 novel.
- The Borrowers (Hallmark, 1973), directed by Walter C. Miller, written by Jay Presson Allen, and starring Eddie Albert, Tammy Grimes, and Judith Anderson.
- The Borrowers (BBC, 1992), directed by John Henderson, written by Richard Carpenter, and starring Ian Holm, Penelope Wilton, Rebecca Callard, and Siân Phillips.
- The Borrowers (PolyGram, 1997), directed by Peter Hewitt, written by Gavin Scott and John Kamps, and starring John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, Celia Imrie, Flora Newbigin, Mark Williams, and Hugh Laurie.
- Arrietty/Arrietty the Borrower/The Secret World of Arrietty (Studio Ghibli, 2010), directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, written by Keiko Niwa and Hayao Miyazaki.
- The Borrowers (BBC, 2011), directed by Tom Harper, written by Ben Vanstone, and starring Christopher Eccleston, Sharon Horgan, Aisling Loftus, Anne Hirsch, and Stephen Fry.
Footnotes:
- Mary Norton’s Borrowers sequels: The Borrowers Afield (1955), The Borrowers Afloat (1959), The Borrowers Aloft (1961), and The Borrowers Avenged (1982)
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Disney, 1971)
- The Return of the Borrowers (BBC, 1993)
- I, Podius
- Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (Orion, 1991) and Small Soldiers (DreamWorks, 1998)
- GQ: John Goodman Breaks Down His Most Iconic Characters
- Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli