Felton and Flora Newbigin (who plays Arrietty) get separated from their parents (Broadbent and Celia Imrie) when the house they live in is set to be bulldozed by evil land developer (is there any other kind?) John Goodman. The family is pretty similar to the Ghibli version, except for they also have a son (Tom Felton). It stars John Goodman and Jim Broadbent, so it at least has something going for it. As it is, the 1997 version is a halfway decent children's films. I have no idea which is closer to the source material (I'd actually bet the 1997 version is the other one is way too Ghibli-esque not to have been heavily changed).
As I expected, this is more of a comic adventure film, a pretty typical children's film for the time, as opposed to the serious and beautiful Ghibli version. I've been interested in seeing this adaptation of Mary Norton's novels ever since I saw the Studio Ghibli adaptation, The Secret World of Arrietty, last February.
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