Oliver & Company (My Version)

Oliver & Company is a 1988 American animated musical jukebox adventure comedy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, The Cannon Group, Inc. and Hughes Entertainment and released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 18, 1988. The film is the 27th animated feature released in the Disney Animated Canon inspired by the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens and stars Joey Lawrence, Billy Joel, Daphne Zuniga, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Natalie Gregory, Mark Metcalf, George Wyner, Robert Loggia, and American rock band Aerosmith (Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton, and Joey Kramer). It was directed and co-produced by John Landis who wrote the screenplay with John Hughes and James Mangold. The film is about a homeless kitten named Oliver who joins a gang of dogs to survive on the 1980s New York City streets with the help of Aerosmith. In this version, he is a cat and Fagin's gang is made up of dogs, one of which is Dodger. It featured songs from the album "Permanent Vacation" which include "Rag Doll", "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" and "Angel" and was re-released in the USA, Canada and the United Kingdom on March 29, 1996.