OLIVER TWIST (MASTERPIECE)

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• Release Year: 1999
• Genre: Classic, Drama, Family
• Plot: In this extraordinary production, storryteller Alan Bleasdale broadens the scope of Charles Dickens' classic tale of an orphan in the 19th century England - and the characters who influence his destiny.; ; Olivers's mother, Agnes, struggles against the tragic circumstances that ultimately leave Oliver a penniless orphan. At the Parish Workhouse, he is forced by other boys to ask for more food, and as a result, is sold as an apprentice to a miserly undertaker. He runs away and is taken in by master theif Fagin, who is in league with a murderous pair determined to see that Oliver never inherits the fortune he deserves. Life twists and turns again and again for Oliver, landing him in alternately dangerous and hopeful circumstances.
• 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, Annette Badland, Iain Robertson, Roger Lloyd Pack, Calum MacPherson, Alan Pentony, Hilary Sesta, Angela Vale, Ysanne Churchman, Marlene Sidaway, Edward Woodall, Phil Kavanagh, Alex McAvoy, Michael Bertenshaw, Deborah Vale, Tessa Vale, Elizabeth Wharton, Ron Webster, Rachel Stanton, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Simon Kunz, David Foxxe, Richard Howard, Desmond Barrit, Andrew Schofield, Daniel Brocklebank, Joy Harrison, Hannah King, Julius Krajewski, Jonathan Jaynes, Clive Russell, Arthur Kelly, Richard Syms, Jakob Schwarz, John Quarmby, Ken Parry, Craster Pringle, Robert Russell, Hugh Lloyd, Ricky Grover, Nicholas Connell, Michael Nickless, Ger Ryan, Cathy Murphy, Tracey Murphy, James Bradshaw, Andrea Miltner, Luke Atherton, Paul Leonard, Vivienne Burgess, Doug Fisher, Howard Karloff, Tom Langley, Sasha Frost, Colin Higgins, Jonathan Owen, David O'Kelly, Daniel Brown, David Ryall, Geoffrey Larder, Sebastian Abineri, Ian Taylor, Robert Orr, Renny Rye, Alan Bleasdale, Charles Dickens
• Director: Renny Rye
• Runtime: 6:00
• Company: Carlton
• Media Format: Movie