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New 'Twist' given to Charles Dickens classic

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From: Daily Breeze
Date: 20040604
Author:CHARLES BRITTON SPECIAL TO RAVE!

For his feature debut, Canadian actor turned writer-director Jacob Tierney has reworked Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist into a story set among street people in present-day Toronto. He calls the result "Twist."

Instead of picking pockets, the young men are hustlers; a group of them live in a sort of commune under the eye of the pimp Fagin, whose office door bears the title "headmaster"; the result recalls Gus Van Sant's "My Own Private Idaho" (1991). The transfer in time and place works surprisingly well, especially since it's clear that the novel is being used only as a point of departure. And ...

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