Oliver Twist (2005)

Directed by

Roman Polanski

Genre

drama film, family film

Country

Czech Republic, United Kingdom, France, Italy

Runtime

2h 05m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 1,248 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An orphan boy endures harsh treatment in a workhouse and then falls in with a gang of child thieves in Victorian London. He struggles to escape poverty and crime while searching for kindness and a better life.

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What happens

Oliver Twist is a 2005 drama film directed by Roman Polanski. The screenplay by Ronald Harwood adapts Charles Dickens's 1838 novel of the same name. It is an international co-production of the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic and France. The film premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival on 11 September 2005 before going into limited release in the United States on 23 September. It received generally positive reviews from critics, but was a commercial failure. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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