Oliver Twist
Following the miserable life of a young orphan boy named Oliver Twist, whose mother has died upon his birth and is taken to the workhouse, where he has a miserable life, but incidents come worse when he has been taken by a street robber, who hijacks boys and teaches them robbery to work with him.
1982, Essex, England, UK
10 August 1948, Torquay, Devon, England, UK
25 May 1958, Bermondsey, London, England, UK
13 February 1933, Finsbury Park, London, England, UK
12 April 1998, Paris, France
1960, Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, England, UK
1 March 1990, Essex, England, UK
24 October 1974, West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
1948, Colchester, Essex, England, UK
11 October 1991, Romford, Essex, England, UK
11 November 1962, Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK
17 July 1946, Annfield Plain, County Durham, England, UK
29 January 1991, London, England, UK
20 January 1993, Paris, France
22 November 1944, London, England, UK
19 February 1986, London, England, UK
21 August 1936, London, England, UK
September 01, 2009
The horrors are comfily buttressed by storybook polish
September 30, 2005
Great expectations are unavoidable when Roman Polanski takes on a Charles Dickens classic. Alas, his version of Oliver Twist fails to live up to them.
September 30, 2005
Oliver Twist is a lovely, tony picture, but it isn't exactly essential.
August 02, 2007
Polanski has crafted something that already feels like a classic film, beautiful to look at, combining accurate period detail with a certain gothic expressionism and brimming with earthy characters and high drama.
August 29, 2013
A smorgasbord of urban decay, social disorder, and class conflict imbues the film with a potent sensuality
September 30, 2005
It's noble, high-minded and safe, and I can't help thinking that I would have preferred an audacious but honest failure.
September 30, 2005
A grounded and unusually matter-of-fact adaptation.
April 25, 2011
Oliver Twist is an affecting and refreshing adaptation of Dickens seminal work from a master director.
September 27, 2006
Polanski's film is not a bad adaptation, and it may be a fine way to introduce children to the classic story. But it is not exactly a definitive version of that story.
September 30, 2005
In Oliver Twist, it's the viewer who is punished.
February 08, 2007
The unspoken sense of youthful post-traumatic holocaust syndrome shock and awe in Polanski's Twist is as palpable as the murky stench and appalling human misery of Dickens' chaotic London streets.
September 30, 2005
Poignant and primal, Roman Polanski's splendid adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic pricks the heart and the conscience.
