Oliver Twist
130 minutes,
UK/Czech Republic/France/Italy (2005), PG
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(4.2 / 36 votes)
(4.2 / 36 votes)
Charles Dickens' tale of a Victorian orphan adapted by Roman Polanski. Oliver Twist comes to London and gets involved with a gang of pickpockets controlled by the fence Fagin, played by Ben Kingsley
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Oliver Twist: Roman Polanski described his sombre adaptation of Dickens' novel as "a film made for my own children", yet he hasn't shied away from the material's inherent darkness. The spectre of death, and specifically the hangman's noose, hovers over the characters. In the early scenes, Oliver is apprenticed to undertaker Mr Sowerberry, where he sleeps in a room full of coffins...
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