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 ...

Those carefree lyrics sung by Dodger in 1988's Oliver & Company ironically stood in direct contrast to Disney's industry position at the time. Indeed, the studio worried about its fading status as the ...

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 ...

Originally, OLIVER & COMPANY was intended to be a sequel to THE RESCUERS, and would focus on young Penny’s life with her new adoptive parents, but that idea eventually fell through, and the film took ...

Faculty, residents, and students at my university participated in the Disney Plus Dream Job and watched 30 Disney films in 30 days. While we completed the dream job on Friday, December 13, we’ll ...