Details Release Date: Feb 17, 2012; Rated: G; Length: 94 Minutes; Genre: Animation; With: Will Arnett, Carol Burnett and Amy Poehler; Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures
The Secret World of Arrietty, about a teeny-size 14-year-old girl who lives with her family beneath the *floorboards of a big house and the human-size boy who befriends her, is adapted from British author Mary Norton's wonderful *children's fantasy novels, The Borrowers. The lyrical animation, with its meditative attention to nature, bears the unique stamp of Japan's Studio Ghibli, cofounded by the great *Spirited Away animator Hayao Miyazaki. The result is a dreamy, soft-edged hybrid, equally interested in observing *raindrops and the worries of a race of *minuscule beings.