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Oliver Twist
Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who appreciate socially conscious period storytelling that balances grim hardship with moral feeling and eventual human kindness.
- Tone
- bleak, sentimental, tense
- Payoff
- catharsis, comfort
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- poverty, childhood vulnerability, exploitation, crime, compassion
- Setting
- nineteenth-century, impoverished urban streets and Victorian interiors
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