Redheaded Jill

If you have seen/read the borrowers you probably know what to expect. This was a very sweet movie.

**SPOILERS AHEAD**

I HOPE you grew up reading the borrowers and the littles. The stories of tiny people, the size of rodents, living in the walls and under the floorboards of homes. Borrowers borrow things that the beans (big people) won’t notice missing. Like a cube of sugar or a tissue. Their biggest concern, besides being discovered, are rodents like mice or pets like cats and dogs.

The story begins with Arriety, who lives with her mom and dad in an old farm house. She is going on her first borrowing adventure with her dad. As they are out and about they are seen by a young boy. He talks to them and says that he knows who they are. That is mom told him stories about the little people growing up. His grandfather even built them a special doll house hoping they would use it.

Arriety’s family is worried about being seen and decided to move. The housekeeper (voiced by Carol Burnett) is on the hunt for the borrowers because she keeps being accused of losing things. It drives her a little bonkers.

One night Arriety’s dad is rescued by Spiller, or was it Spinner? A borrower who lives in the woods. He tells them he knows of many more borrower families living in town and they decide to move.

One day the housekeeper catches Arriety’s mom, so she and her human friend go on a rescue mission. They are in a race against time as an exterminator has been called by the house keeper.

Arriety tells her friend goodbye and leaves with her parents. It’s kind of sad, but hints that her family is reunited with her mother’s family, who they thought had all died. The boy returns to the farm house in later summers and hears stories from neighbors about this going missing around their homes.

I loved this movie. It was so sweet. It was similar to the book, from what I can remember. And it was also similar to the live action movie that I used to be obsessed with as a kid. My bff and I growing up would watch it all the time, and we were even borrowers for Halloween a couple of times.

This is family friendly and kid friendly.

4.5/5 stars.