Boy Called Twist

Boy Called Twist, is a 2004 film that tells the story of a Cape Town street kid, based on Dickens classic, Oliver Twist. It was the first film directed by Timothy Greene. Fundraising for the film involved small donations from a thousand investors, leading to the longest Associate Producers listing in the history of cinema.

Enter Monks the only person who knows Twists true identity. He is paying Fagin to keep the little boy marginalised. If he ends up in jail or dead on the street, so much the better, for Monks stands to lose his inheritance if anybody ever discovers that Twist is Bassediens grandson.The brutal gangster Bill Sykes, and his prostitute girlfriend, Nancy, steal Twist back for Fagin, and the struggle for a little boys soul begins in earnest. ........

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