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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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
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Cast
- Richard DreyfussFagin
- Elijah WoodThe Artful Dodger
- David O'HaraBill Sikes
- Alex TrenchOliver Twist
- Antoine ByrneNancy
- Olivia CaffreyRose Maylie
- Anthony FiniganMr. Brownlow
- Maria CharlesWidow Corney
- Des BraidenMagistrate
- Eileen ColganMrs. Bedwin
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- Tony BillDirector
- Charles DickensNovel
- Bing SokolskyDirector of Photography
- Van Dyke ParksOriginal Music Composer
- Axel HubertEditor
- Steven NorthProducer
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