Oliver Twist

About Oliver Twist

An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.

Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist is a 2005 crime film. The film is filed under child abuse, thief, kids, and street gang.

Barney Clark appears as Oliver Twist, Ben Kingsley as Fagin, Jamie Foreman as Bill Sikes, and Harry Eden as The Artful Dodger. At 130 minutes long, it arrived in September 2005.

The screenplay is by Ronald Harwood. Produced by R.P. Productions. It is adapted from a novel.

Oliver!, A Clockwork Orange, and Sleepers make useful companions to Oliver Twist, all filed under orphanage and pickpocket. TMDB voters put it at 6.8 out of 10 across 1,267 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.