Is the movie The Borrowers available on Netflix, Disney+, Prime or Apple TV+?
At Stream Tracker, we take a look back at The Borrowers (1997), the tiny-scale family adventure about the four-inch-tall Clock family who “borrow” thread, safety pins and batteries while hiding in the Lenders’ house. When the villainous lawyer Ocious P. Potter steals the will and threatens to bulldoze the home to make apartments, the miniature world faces the terrifying prospect of exposure to the normal-sized world. In this article we check whether you can catch this whimsical tale on Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video or Apple TV+, and explain where it’s currently streaming (or not). Whether you’re after nostalgia or a family movie night, we’ll guide you to the best way to watch.
Synopsis
A family of tiny people, only a few inches tall, quietly makes its home inside the walls of an ordinary family’s house, salvaging pins, thread, batteries and food scraps to survive. Their secret existence is endangered when the unscrupulous lawyer Ocious P. Potter steals the deed to the property and plans to demolish the home to build apartments. Forced to move, the human Lenders leave the Clocks facing homelessness and the terrifying prospect of being exposed to the vast, everyday world outside their hideaways.
Watch on which platform The Borrowers
Updated on 12/03/2026Netflix
Not available
Disney+
Not available
Apple TV+
Not available
