Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

★ 6.8IMDb 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:

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.

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