Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

A Compelling New Version of the Great Victorian Classic

1982103 min6.7 / 10

A Victorian social drama that traces an orphan's journey from institutional cruelty through criminal underworld to redemption, grounded in period authenticity and moral clarity about systemic injustice.

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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