Shot in Ireland, this revisionist version of the Dickens classic was produced for television by the Disney organization. The film was released on home video in 1998.
In 1825 a nameless vagrant woman dies after giving birth to a baby whom the county orphanage arbitrarily names Oliver Twist. Oliver grows up in the workhouse, fixated on a locket his mother possessed. When adolescent Oliver (Alex Trench) is expelled for daring to ask for more food, he sets out for
London and the Grosvenor Square address engraved on the locket.
In the city, Oliver is befriended by Jack "Dodger" Hawkins (Elijah Wood), a young pickpocket who introduces Oliver to Fagin (Richard Drey...
Released:
1998
Rated:
NR
Length:
91 mins