| 1 | * FakeAmerican: As the Lenders are made Americans, Doon Mackichan and Aden Gillett (both British) put on American accents to play Victoria and Joe. |
| 2 | * RealLifeWritesTheHairstyle: Potter was supposed to lose his eyebrows as well as his mustache. Creator/JohnGoodman however was worried about them not growing back in time for ''{{Series/Roseanne}}''. |
| 3 | * RecursiveAdaptation: A movie based on [[Literature/TheBorrowers a book series]] itself received a novelization. |
| 4 | * StarMakingRole: While he was already known in the UK for ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'', this launched Creator/JimBroadbent onto bigger films like ''Film/MoulinRouge'', ''Literature/BridgetJones'' and ''Iris''. |
| 5 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: |
| 6 | ** Creator/PeterSellers bought the rights in TheSixties and Jay Presson Allen wrote a script for an adaptation. Peter Sellers would have starred but the project never went ahead. |
| 7 | ** Creator/StevenSpielberg was offered the chance to direct, but turned it down because he was too busy working on ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark''. |
| 8 | ** Creator/TimAllen, Creator/ChevyChase, Creator/MartinClunes, Creator/DannyDeVito, Creator/JeffGoldblum, Creator/BobHoskins, Creator/ChristopherLloyd, Creator/SteveMartin, Creator/BillMurray, Creator/EdONeill, Creator/JoePesci, Creator/AlanRickman and Creator/RobinWilliams were all considered for the role of Ocious P. Potter. |
| 9 | ** Creator/JeffDaniels, Creator/RonPerlman and Creator/KurtRussell were considered for Exterminator Jeff. |
| 10 | ** Arrietty and Peagreen fleeing from the hammer blows was planned as (and filmed as) TheOner. For pacing reasons, the shot ended up being broken up with intercuts of Potter and Jeff hammering at the wall. |
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