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Release Date: 2005

Cast: Teresa Churcher, Alun Armstrong, Ben Kingsley, John Nettleton, Leanne Rowe, Michael Heath, Ophelia Lovibond, Richard Durden, Timothy Bateson, Andy Linden, Peter Copley, Ian McNeice ...MORE

Cast: Teresa Churcher, Alun Armstrong, Ben Kingsley, John Nettleton, Leanne Rowe, Michael Heath, Ophelia Lovibond, Richard Durden, Timothy Bateson, Andy Linden, Peter Copley, Ian McNeice, Mark Strong, Barney Clark, Jamie Foreman, Turbo, Jake Curran, Nick Stringer, Edward Hardwicke, Paul Brooke, Frances Cuka, Jeremy Swift, Harry Eden, Andy de la Tour, Levi Hayes ...LESS

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Oliver Twist is a 2005 British drama film directed by Roman Polanski. The screenplay by Ronald Harwood is based on the 1838 novel of the same title by Charles Dickens. The film was preceded by numerous adaptations of the Dickens book, including several feature films, three television movies, two miniseries, and a stage musical that became an Academy Award-winning movie. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2005 before going into limited release in the United States on September 23. Young orphan Oliver Twist is forcibly brought to a workhouse in an... MORE

Oliver Twist is a 2005 British drama film directed by Roman Polanski. The screenplay by Ronald Harwood is based on the 1838 novel of the same title by Charles Dickens. The film was preceded by numerous adaptations of the Dickens book, including several feature films, three television movies, two miniseries, and a stage musical that became an Academy Award-winning movie. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2005 before going into limited release in the United States on September 23. Young orphan Oliver Twist is forcibly brought to a workhouse in an unidentified town In England on his ninth birthday. He and the other resident children are treated poorly and given very little food. Facing starvation, the boys select Oliver (through a lottery) to ask for more food at the next meal, which he tentatively does. This results in Oliver being chastised, and the workhouse officials, who are wealthy, well-fed, hypocritical men, decide to get rid of him. After nearly being sold as an apprentice to a cruel chimney sweep, Oliver is sent to Mr. Sowerberry, a coffin-maker, whose wife and senior apprentice take an instant dislike to the newcomer. After more LESS