Cast:Annette Crosbie, Marc Warren, Michael Kitchen, Lindsay Duncan, Julie Walters, David Ross, Sam Smith, John Grillo, Charlotte Le Moignan, Emily Woof, Robert Lindsay, Andy Serkis, Alex Crowley, Keira Knightley, Isla Fisher, Roland Manookian, Liz Smith, Sarah Flind, Alun Armstrong, Sam Kelly, Morgan Jones, Sophia Myles, David Bark-Jones, Laura Grace Cockroft, Tim Dutton, Rosalind March, Iain Robertson, Roger Lloyd Pack, Calum MacPherson, Alan Pentony
Synopsis
Based on Charles Dickens' novel, this adaptation traces the childhood of an orphan whose mother dies giving birth to him in an English work-house in the 1820s. Little Oliver Twist (Sam Smith), already abused, starved, and overworked, is apprenticed to an undertaker and runs away to London after being bullied by an older apprentice. There, he is taken in by Fagin (Robert Lindsay), a fence and thief-trainer, and his gang of pickpockets. He is befriended by Nancy (Emily Woof), a good-hearted prostitute, and meets her lover, the brutal housebreaker Bill Sikes (Andy Serkis). But attempts by the gang to discredit him result in his being taken in by Mr. Brownlow (Michael Kitchen), a wealthy and charitable man, who proves to be the catalyst for Oliver's discovery of his background and identity. Here Alan Bleasdale's dramatization differs from Dickens' novel, in that Oliver does not fall into Brownlow's hands by coincidence, and we already know his backstory: he's the child of a young woman ...
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