Oliver & Company (1988)
- warm
- kinetic
- redemptive
Warm, breathless, measured animation / family, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Putting its own 'twist' on the story of Oliver Twist, the orange runt of a litter of kittens must fight for survival on the rough streets on New York City, finding unlikely friends in the dogs owned by a down-on-his luck man named Fagin. Soon, Oliver and his new band of comrades must fight for survival when Fagin is unable to pay his debts.
Our read · Oliver & Company (1988) (1988) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded animation · family · musical entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of Oliver & Company
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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