Oliver Twist
2005 · 130 min
Directed by Roman Polanski. Written by Ronald Harwood. Starring Barney Clark, Ben Kingsley, Jamie Foreman, Harry Eden.
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.
Critics 61% · audiences 63%