Twentysomething Canadian director Jacob Tierney's modern, moody retelling of the Charles Dickens' classic Oliver Twist is about as gritty as it gets.

Situated in a completely different universe from the zippy 1968 musical Oliver!, which saw a gang of likeable pick-pockets dancing and singing around Victorian London, Tierney's version finds the runaway orphan Oliver (newcomer Joshua Close) fall in with a gang of male prostitutes and junkies in present-day Toronto.
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