Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

6.7IMDb Score
Released:2005-09-23
Duration:130 min
Director:Roman Polanski
Actors:Barney Clark, Ben Kingsley, Jamie Foreman, Harry Eden, Edward Hardwicke
Production:ETIC Films, R.P. Productions, Runteam III Ltd.

Overview:

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

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