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I caught this movie on one of my premium cable channels.I liked it so much I ordered a copy through Amazon.I love the Charles Dickens story so much that I now own three film versions of it.The 1968 Oscar winner "Oliver",Roman Polanski's 2005 "Oliver Twist" and now "Boy Called Twist".

Tim Greene (III) brought this old story together in a splendid way.The young actor playing the lead role Jarrid Geduld gives us a stunningly believable portrayal of Twist.His innocent and melancholy character is quite convincing.His personal mannerisms add so much more substance to it also.I too feel this young man should have a great acting career ahead of him if all goes well.

Of particular mention again is the beautiful South African actress Kim Engelbrecht playing Nancy.Ms Engelbrecht offers us an equally believable Nancy as her predecessors have from the other film versions mentioned.

What makes this movie so special is that Greene has taken us from London to the shady and dreary life of the inhabitants of the streets of Cape Town.The young boys who have become accustomed to a rough lifestyle of petty larceny just to exist.We are carried through the back alleys and the run down buildings these youngsters and crooked adults call home.

I found the soundtrack of this picture to be outstanding.From the heartbreaking theme song throughout the movie to the touching male vocal track playing in the background as the young children are sent off to work on a farm.

All in all I was delighted to have yet another look at Dickens story.Excellently done

I've read other comments on this sequel to 2001.Some pass it off as outdated,acting not up to par,comparing Hyams with Kubrick,disappointment with this version explaining narratively our ride to Jupiter.I consider nit picking criticism like that pure rubbish.

This film does have a modern day look to it as I am writing this in 2007,in spite of it being released some 23 years ago.The visual effects are still outstanding as well as the sound.Back in 1984 surround sound was in it's infancy,only some 7 years old maybe?

I think director Peter Hyams' telling of this extraordinary story is marvelous.Stanley Kubrick was at the helms on 2001.Did it his way,why compare the styles?They both did fantastic jobs.

2010 carries us further on into the mystery of the Monolith.We were left with all sorts of questions in 2001.This film gives us both an enlightening and spiritual insight to the real nature of the black puzzling object.

I love this movie.

So sad some of you guys missed the general idea of this film,which is imagination.That final scene where the four of them balloon into Africa is what it says the film is,Damian's imagination.To take money to the disadvantaged in that country so that they may have water in that impoverished land.

It's fantasy that makes this film a pure delight.This world is so full of craziness and hatred.Why not let our minds travel to a place where,from a child's view,the good things about this world really count,helping others? We do have bad elements in this picture enough to keep us anchored on where we really are,but the marvelous play and where this story takes us overshadows the negative.I love this movie.