When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

The making of Roman Polanski's "Oliver Twist" as seen through the eyes of the film's child actors.

A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.