Oliver & Company

Oliver & Company is a 1988 American animated musical comedy drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and inspired by the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist and the Victor Hugo novel Les Misérables. It was directed by George Scribner and written by Jim Cox, Tim Disney, and James Mangold. In the film, Oliver is a homeless kitten who joins a gang of dogs centered around Fagin and Dodger) to survive in the streets. Among other changes, the setting of the film was relocated from 19th-century London to late 1980s and early 1990s New York City, and Sykes is a loan shark. In late 1984 or 1985, Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg held a pitch meeting with the animation staff. After story artist Pete Young pitched the idea to adapt Oliver Twist with dogs, the pitch was quickly approved, and the film quickly went into production under the working title Oliver and the Dodger.

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