MOVIE · 2005

Oliver Twist

CrimeDramaFamily130 min

After asking for a second bowl of gruel at the workhouse, orphan Oliver Twist is pushed into the streets of 19th-century London, where he is taken up by the Artful Dodger and pulled into a ring of child pickpockets. Barney Clark is the young Oliver, moving from brutal institutions to cramped alleys and criminal hideouts as he searches for a safer life. Ben Kingsley’s Fagin presides over the boys with a mix of calculation and charm, while the threat of Bill Sikes hangs over the gang. Charles Dickens’s story keeps its attention on hunger, exploitation, and a child trying to find somewhere to belong.