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 ...

A young cat named Oliver is left alone in a kitten box, while all the other young cats have new owners. A big dog named Dodger shows him how to get food and later Oliver lives with him, his owner ...

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 ...