Oliver Twist (2005)

An orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London and joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.

Old-fashioned, but vivid, and at times dark adaptation of the classics Dickens novel; period detail is excellent.

Maltin***: "Stark, literal adaptation...Polanski offers a sobering portrait of the muck and grime that engulf the poor in any era. Well done, but still no match for David Lean's 1948 masterpiece."