Film based on the novel by Charles Dickens.

Special features of this DVD: an audience with Charles Dickens: Sikes and Nancy ; scene selection.

Music, Dudley Simpson.

Eric Porter, Frank Middlemass, Godfrey James, Lysette Anthony, Ben Rodska, Michael Attwell, Scott Funnell, David Garlick, Amanda Harris.

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.

Not rated.

DVD.

Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.