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Director:
Tony Bill
Writers:
Charles Dickens (novel)
Monte Merrick (writer)
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Release Date:
16 November 1997 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama | Family more
Plot:
Charles Dickens' classical story about the young orphan boy in 1837 England is again re-filmed in grand fashion... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations more
User Comments:
Consider Yourself . . . lucky if you missed this one. more

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Additional Details

Runtime:
91 min | Argentina:95 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Filming Locations:
Ireland

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Oliver: Dodger, it's not a game anymore.
The Artful Dodger: [sadly] It never was a game, mate. You just thought it was.
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Movie Connections:
Version of Oliver Twist (1916) more

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5 out of 8 people found the following comment useful:-
Consider Yourself . . . lucky if you missed this one., 20 March 2001
Author: thomandybish from Weaverville, NC

The reference to the song from the musical version of Charles Dickens' classic is not gratuitous, because this Disney version owes as much to the film version of OLIVER! as it does to the novel. Maybe more, because very little of the novel's depiction of crippling poverty and horrific child abuse remains. Too much sugar coats these reprehensible characters and situations. Fagin is softened to some sort of gruff but lovable foster father, and Nancy is enobled as a hooker-with-a-heart of gold, not a pathetic, physically and mentally battered wretch. One would expect such a treatment from Disney, but the trivialization of poverty, child abuse, and crime does not do the story Dickens intended justice.

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