Oliver Twist (TV Miniseries)
- Original title
- Oliver Twist
- Year
- 1985
- Running time
- 360 min.
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Alexander Baron. Novel: Charles Dickens
- Cast
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- Ben Rodska
- Lysette Anthony
- Eric Porter
- Michael Attwell
- Pip Donaghy
- Amanda Harris
- Nicholas Bond-Owen
- David Garlick
- Godfrey James
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- Music
- Producer
- Genre
- TV Series. Drama | TV Miniseries. 19th Century. Poverty. Childhood
- Movie Groups
- Charles Dickens Adaptations | Oliver Twist
- Synopsis
- In a storm, in a workhouse, to a nameless woman, young Oliver Twist is born into parish care where he's overworked and underfed. As he grows older his adventures take him from the countryside to London, through harsh treatment, kindness, an undertaker, and a thieves' dens, where he makes friends and enemies. But all the time he is pursued by the mysterious Monks, who hires Fagin to turn Oliver into a thief. Oliver is rescued by chance and kind friends. But it's a puzzle of legitimacy, inheritance, and identity that Oliver's friends must attempt to unravel before Monks can destroy Oliver.
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