A loose adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist, Walt Disney Pictures’ Oliver and Company (1988) follows Oliver, a little homeless kitten who joins a street-smart gang of dogs led ...

Dodger, voiced by Billy Joel, in Oliver & Company. (Photo: Walt Disney Pictures courtesy Everett Collection) The animals of Oliver & Company, clockwise from left: Oliver (Joey Lawrence), Francis ...

The story of Disney is almost as well-known as a Disney fairytale. There’s the groundbreaking start in the late ’30s, the lean World War II years, the artistic peak of the 1950s followed by a few ...

The pitch might have gone something like this: “Oliver Twist” … but with dogs … starring a cat. The result is “Oliver & Company,” an animated film released by Disney in 1988. The movie is not exactly ...

Your first movie is a big deal. It’s the kinda milestone that you remember, that people ask you about, and that the website you write for will put on your author page. But for years I couldn’t decide ...

Our Flick of the Week is ”Oliver & Company,” the first animated feature from the new Disney studio regime, which is promising one such picture each year. Their first effort, measured against the ...

How do you interview the characters in a Walt Disney animated feature? You go straight to the source: their voices. After all, as George Scribner, director of “Oliver & Company,” Disney’s latest ...

My work on adapting Rudyard Kipling’s “The Man Who Would Be King” unraveled swiftly. I banged out a treatment, submitted it to Jeffrey Katzenberg, and he decided my take on the story wasn’t what he ...