Movie: The Secret World of Arriety
Genre: animated fantasy
Synopsis: Shawn is a young boy with a heart ailment. He is living with his aunt so that he can rest before he has heart surgery. Living in his aunt’s is the Clock family - a family of four-inch high “Borrowers” The Clocks live in secret, surviving off of items they “borrow” from the humans. One of the Clocks is a fourteen-year-old Arriety. She has just come of age and is making her first borrowing excursion. When Shawn accidentally sees Arriety, all he wants to do is be friends with her. On the other hand, Clock’s family is horrified that she was seen and fear that they will have to move. Complicating things is the nasty maid of Shawn’s aunt, who is determined to find the little people and put an end to them.
My two cents: I was less than enchanted with this, perhaps because I have never read the books upon which it was based. I am also not crazy about the Japanese style of animation that was used.
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