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Oliver Twink
Rating: 3 Stars
Produced, written, edited, and directed by Peter Z. Pan. Starring Dillon Samuels, Kyros Christian, Jarrett Fox, Brad Star, Riley Burke, Matt Havoc, Ryan Thompson, Jayce Jones, Gabriel Dubois, Harry Beastt, Misty Eyez, and Auntie Mame.
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Having made short work of the TV series Bewitched in BeTwinked, and given The DaVinci Code its just desserts in The DaVinci Load, porn prankster Peter Z. Pan sets his sights on Charles Dickens. In this cheerfully salacious update of Oliver Twist, Dillon Samuels, a sun-bronzed blond with an impish grin, appears in the title role. The story begins at the Kathy Lee Gifford Workhouse for Orphaned Waifs in Dumpwater, Florida, where Oliver has reached his 18th birthday. (Since the protagonist of the 1838 novel was supposed to be nine, there have been a few changes.) Having come of age, Oliver is turned out into the world, but not before he receives an invigorating birthday gift from Mr. Bumble (Brad Star) in a scene that lends new resonance to the line, "Please, sir -- I want some more."

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n the big city, Oliver meets a young male whore called the Artful Dodger, embodied by dark-mopped newcomer Kyros Christian, who seems to have stepped out of a '70s porn loop by J. Brian or William Higgins. The Dodger takes Oliver back to the lair he and other Miami hustlers share with their spidery pimp and mentor, Fagin. The latter role is unexpectedly filled by Jarret Fox, a popular member of the PZP rep company who marks his graduation from twinkhood by trading his fluffy blond locks for a shadier look. Counterparts of figures from the novel keep turning up, including Bill Sykes (Gabriel Dubois), transformed from robber into sleazy bareback porn producer, and his girlfriend Nancy (Misty Eyez, in Catholic schoolgirl drag).

A three-way among Oliver, the Artful Dodger, and Fagin isn't all it might be, but most of the five sex scenes work, especially Oliver's steamy encounter with his rescuer, Detective Brownlow. Oliver Twist has been superimposed on a modern urban hustler milieu before -- Jacob Tierney's 2003 feature Twist was set in Toronto's rentboy subculture -- but this lewd, shoestring version is more fun.