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The Adventures of Oliver Twist

The book The Adventures of Oliver Twist was made into the movie Oliver Twist.

Which one did you like better, the book or the movie?  There are 10 votes for the book, and 3 votes for the movie.

Book details for The Adventures of Oliver Twist

The Adventures of Oliver Twist was written by Charles Dickens. . More information on the book is available on Amazon.com.

Charles Dickens also wrote Great Expectations (2002) and A Christmas Carol (2005).

 

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Edited with an Introduction by Philip Horne.
Edited with an Introduction by Philip Horne.

Movie details for Oliver Twist

The movie was released in 2005 and directed by Roman Polanski, who also directed The Ninth Gate (1999). Oliver Twist was produced by Sony Pictures. More information on the movie is available on Amazon.com and also IMDb.

Actors on this movie include Barney Clark, Jeremy Swift, Ian McNeice, Richard Durden, Timothy Bateson, Andy de la Tour, Filip Hess, Andreas Papadopoulos, Laurie Athey, Joseph Tremain, Peter Copley, Andy Linden, John Nettleton, Tony Noble, Michael Heath, Gillian Hanna, Teresa Churcher, Chris Overton, Gerard Horan and Morgane Polanski.

 

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If Charles Dickens were alive to see Roman Polanski's faithful adaptation of Oliver Twist, he'd probably give it his stamp of approval. David Lean's celebrated 1948 version of the Dickens classic and Carol Reed's Oscar®-winning 1968 musical are more enter... Read More
If Charles Dickens were alive to see Roman Polanski's faithful adaptation of Oliver Twist, he'd probably give it his stamp of approval. David Lean's celebrated 1948 version of the Dickens classic and Carol Reed's Oscar®-winning 1968 musical are more entertaining in some ways, but Polanski's rendition is both painstakingly authentic (with superb cinematography and production design) and deeply rooted in the emotional context of the story. Both Polanski and Dickens had personal experiences similar to those of young Oliver (played here by Barney Clark) -- Polanski in the Nazi-occupied ghettos of Poland during World War II, and Dickens during his hard-scrabble youth in Victorian London -- and this spiritual kinship lends a certain gravitas to the tale of a tenacious orphan who escaped from indentured servitude in London society and is taken in by Fagin (Ben Kingsley) and his streetwise gang of pickpockets. As the evil Bill Sykes, who exploits Oliver for his own nefarious needs, Jamie Foreman is no match for Oliver Reed (in the '68 musical) in terms of frightening menace, but even here, Polanski's direction hews closer to Dickens, while the screenplay by Ronald Harwood (who also wrote Polanski's The Pianist) necessarily trims away subplots and characters for the sake of narrative economy. All in all, this Oliver Twist rises above most previous versions, and with the benefit of Kingsley's nuanced performance, Polanski arrives at a compassionate conclusion that captures the essence of Dickens' novel in a way that viewers of all ages will appreciate for many years to come. --Jeff Shannon