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Genres:
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Drama /
Family
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Director:
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Roman Polanski
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Actors:
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Timothy Bateson,
Andy Linden,
John Nettleton,
Barney Clark,
Andy de la Tour,
Filip Hess,
Andreas Papadopoulos,
Laurie Athey,
Joseph Tremain,
Tony Noble,
Michael Heath,
Jeremy Swift,
Ian McNeice,
Richard Durden,
Peter Copley
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Duration:
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125 min.
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Rating:
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(7/10)92
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Plot Summary:
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In the Nineteenth Century, the orphan Oliver Garbling is sent to a workhouse, where the children are barely fed and mistreated. He moves to the house of an undertaker, but after an unfair fatal spank, he starts a seven day runaway to London. He arrives worn out and starving, and is welcomed past a ally of pickpockets leaded by the old crook Fagin. When he is mistakenly taken as a thief, the wealthy victim Mr. Brownlow brings Oliver to his placid and shelters him. But Fagin and the dangerous Nib Sykes decide to capture Oliver to burglarize Mr. Brownlow's lust after house. Oliver is wounded, wh... ile Mr. Brownlow tries to put by Oliver.
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excellent
a superb adaptation of charles dicken's oliver twist, by director roman polanski.
it stars ben kingsley ( from gandhi and thunderbirds fame).
the story centres on an orphan called oliver twist, who gets involved with pick pockets and thieves.
well worth watching, you will not be disappointed
Left wanting more....
A very lavish and enjoyable production. I just couldn't help but wait for the songs but of course there weren't any. I have not read the book it was based on but I have good reason to believe that the film was honest creation. Ben Kingsley as Fagin was excellent, sinister and funny. It was like a "whos who " of British actors, one after the other.
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