Oliver Twist 🎥 2005 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Nine-year-old orphan Oliver Twist is taken to the workhouse by the beadle Mr Bumble. After daring to ask for more food, Oliver is sold as an apprentice to Mr Sowerberry, a local undertaker, but runs away when Sowerberry’s other apprentice, Noah Claypole, gets Oliver in trouble. Oliver travels a seven-day journey to London where he befriends a young boy named Jack Dawkins, better known as the Artful Dodger, who takes him to join a gang of pickpockets led by the villainous Fagin. He also becomes acquainted with Nancy, a former pupil of Fagin’s who is in love with Fagin’s associate, Bill Sikes.

Dodger and his friend Charley Bates take Oliver out to teach him to pick pockets—it ends in disaster when Oliver is falsely arrested for stealing from Mr Brownlow. However, Brownlow decides to take Oliver in and care for him when he learns of the boy’s innocence. Fagin and Sikes become worried that Oliver will bring down the authorities onto them, so force Nancy to help bring Oliver back. To ensure Oliver becomes a criminal, Sikes brings him to rob Brownlow’s house at gunpoint. Oliver is wounded in a shoot-out between Sikes and Brownlow. Sikes and Fagin later decide that Oliver knows too much and will likely inform on them. Sikes suggests that they kill him, to which Fagin reluctantly agrees.

Nancy overhears this and manages to inform Brownlow of Fagin’s plan, keeping Sikes’ name out of it. However, unbeknownst to her, Dodger has been sent by Fagin to spy on her and tells Fagin and Sikes, the latter of whom murders her. Nancy’s murder becomes public and the police resolve to arrest both Sikes and Fagin, for murder and abduction respectively. Sikes’ dog, Bullseye, leads the authorities to the gang’s hide-out. Sikes uses Oliver as a hostage whilst attempting to escape, but accidentally hangs himself.

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