Few quotes encompass the richness of friendship ... appreciates and benefits from the unlikely bond between himself and Arrietty, a relationship neither of them ever expected to find.

Now comes “The Secret World of Arrietty,” a tale of the tiny. With a screenplay by anime genius Hayao Miyazaki (“Ponyo,” “Spirited Away,” “Howl’s Moving Castle”) and produced by ...

The new film The Secret World of Arrietty is based on Mary Norton's celebrated 1952 novel The Borrowers. It's about a race of tiny people who live among us but prefer to go unseen. And very tiny ...

The Secret World of Arrietty is an animated family fable that's hand-drawn and thus not as flashy as some CGI offerings but that grows on you little by little. And "little" is the operative word here.

This week, we’re retracing the director’s debut film, “The Secret World of Arrietty” (2010), which similarly follows a sick child, Shō, as he retreats to the countryside to rest.