Oliver Twist

Drama, Family

Barney Clark	Oliver Twist
Harry Eden	Artful Dodger
Jamie Foreman	Bill Sykes
Edward Hardwicke	Mr. Brownlow
Ben Kingsley	Fagin
Leanne Rowe	Nancy
Mark Strong	Toby Crackit
Ian McNeice	Mr. Limbkins
Jeremy Swift	Mr. Bumble
Frances Cuka	Mrs. Bedwin
Richard Durden	Unkind Board Member
Timothy Bateson	Parson
Andy de la Tour	Workhouse Master
Filip Hess	Workhouse Boy
Andreas Papadopoulos	Workhouse Boy
Laurie Athey	Workhouse Boy
Joseph Tremain	Hungry Boy
Timothy Burrill
Allan Starski
James Freedman (III)

Director	Roman Polanski; Laurent Bouzereau
Producer	Roman Polanski; Robert Benmussa; Timothy Burrill; <b>Roman Polanski</b>; Alain Sarde
Writer	Ronald Harwood; Charles Dickens
Cinematography	Pawel Edelman
Musician	Rachel Portman

It is Oliver Twist’s (Barney Clark) ninth birthday. Where boys in better circumstances would get a gift Oliver is dispatched to a workhouse. This is a cruel step down from the unpleasant orphanage he has called home his whole life. At the workhouse Oliver is tricked by the other boys into asking for a second helping. His act is interpreted as defiance and for his sins Oliver is loaned out to a cruel undertaker from whose establishment he flees. After an exhausting seven day walk Oliver reaches London where he runs across the delightfully skilled pickpocket the Artful Dodger (Harry Eden). The Dodger works for Fagin (Ben Kingsley), an elderly crook who trains young boys to steal for him. Oliver is welcomed into the gang and promptly put to work. He shows little aptitude for the job and is caught by his wealthy victim, Mr. Brownlow (Edward Hardwicke). Mr. Brownlow takes pity on Oliver and invites him home. But Fagin doesn’t want to let Oliver slip out of his grasp and sends his henchman Bill Sykes (Jamie Foreman) to kidnap Oliver and steal the elegant treasures of the Brownlow house.