Arrietty

2/21/2014

One of the most delicate and visually gorgeous movies from studios Ghibli with a great celtic OST to remember.

10/18/2026

"The Borrowers" are the little people who collect odds and ends from folk's houses and put them to better use, usually without their erstwhile owners being any the wiser. "Arrietty" is one of them, and coming up to her fourteenth birthday is keen to accompany her dad "Pod" on her first excursion into the house above. Her slightly neurotic mother is apprehensive, but that is outweighed by her need for sugar and tissue, and so off they go... Meantime, recently arrived in the house is the young "Sho", who has been sent to this rural idyll by his largely absentee parents to rest up before an impending heart operation. His heart may well not be in tip-top condition, but his eyes are and thanks to his cat he espies "Arrietty" in their garden and again after she had raided their sugar bowl. Is he