Oliver Twist (TV series), released 1999 — adapted from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.
An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.
Starring Sam Smith, David Ross, Julie Walters, Marc Warren, Lindsay Duncan.
Created by Alan Bleasdale.
