# Oliver Twist (1997)

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**Runtime**: 91 min
**Genres**: Family, Drama
**Directed by**: Tony Bill
**Starring**: Richard Dreyfuss, Elijah Wood, David O'Hara, Alex Trench, Antoine Byrne, Olivia Caffrey

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Here's a film that knows its source material. An orphan escapes his workhouse and falls in with a gang of child thieves in London. Will the forces of light rescue him from a life of crime? It is, at least, a very watchable version.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, outsider, tender

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