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Twist

 

USA 2003, 97 minutes
Dir. Jacob Tierney
Rating: [R16]
Genres: Drama / LGBT

 

Aroview: 'Gay hustler' recasting of the Charles Dickens classic, set amid a group of heroin addicts who inhabit the inner-city dark corners of modernday Toronto.

Centring the story is a 'Dodge' (Stahl), a fallen suburbanite who steers young 'Oliver' (Close) into the grimily warm camaraderie of 'Fagin's (Farmer) prostitution ring. Revolving the themes of youth exploitation into a new century, this makes its point with a certain sullen fatefulness, avoiding Dickensian sentimentality for a more unrelieved grimness.

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