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By Sean O’Connell

Hollywoodnews.com: The word on “Like Crazy” out of Sundance this year was that it’s the film that broke the most hearts. Felicity Jones emerged from last winter’s festival as a talent to pay attention to. That’s why she’ll be honored with the “New Hollywood Award” at this year’s 15th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Film Awards.

This year’s ceremony, presented by Starz Entertainment, is scheduled for Monday, Oct. 24, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. Jones will accept the award for her work in “Crazy,” a long-distance love affair co-starring Anton Yelchin that was co-written and directed by Drake Doremus.

Paramount Vantage plans to open “Like Crazy” in theaters on Oct. 28.

In the meantime, here’s Jones’s full bio:

Felicity Jones earned a Special Jury Award for acting when “Like Crazy” debuted at the Sundance Film Festival.

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Daniel Craig delivers a startling performance as Joe Scot, a washed-up Hollywood star adrift in a haze of sex, drugs and squandered fame. But when he receives news of the sudden death of his childhood best friend, Joe flashes back to his younger self (played by Harry Eden of Oliver Twist) in his small English seaside village and the summer of innocence and tragedy that would change his life forever. Olivia Williams (The Sixth Sense...

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Daniel Craig delivers a startling performance as Joe Scot, a washed-up Hollywood star adrift in a haze of sex, drugs and squandered fame. But when he receives news of the sudden death of his childhood best friend, Joe flashes back to his younger self (played by Harry Eden of Oliver Twist) in his small English seaside village and the summer of innocence and tragedy that would change his life forever. Olivia Williams (The Sixth Sense), Claire Forlani (CSI: NY), Mark Strong (Sherlock Holmes, Robin Hood, Kick-Ass) and Grammy Award Winner Eve co-star in this powerful drama about love, loss and one man's journey to redemption.

Harry Eden and newcomer Angie Ruiz will star opposite Daniel Craig in the coming-of-age indie Flashbacks of a Fool.

Penned by Baillie Walsh, the film centers on an aging movie star (Craig) who returns to his English seaside hometown for the funeral of his childhood best friend. He experiences flashbacks of his younger years and a summer that resulted in a tragedy that changed his life forever. Eden will play the younger version of Craig's character.

The film, which marks music video director Walsh's feature helming debut, is shooting in South Africa and England.

Left Turn Films is producing. Lene Bausager, Damon Bryant and Claus Clausen will serve as producers, and Craig is executive producing.

Eden, whose credits include the Keira Knightley starrer Pure and Land of the Blind opposite Ralph Fiennes, most recently starred as the Artful Dodger in Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist. He is repped by ICM, ICM London and Melanie Greene Management.

Ruiz was named by People en Espanol magazine as a Cara Nueva (New Face) of 2006.

The biggest surprise in Roman Polanski's "Oliver Twist" is that there are no surprises. In retelling Charles Dickens' most beloved tale -- with the possible exception of "A Christmas Carol" -- the director relates the familiar story in an all-too-familiar way. Given Polanski's own harrowing childhood in the Polish countryside, surviving the Nazi occupation, one might have hoped that he would use young Oliver's adventures as a penniless orphan adrift in a corrupt and abusive 19th century England as a kind of spiritual autobiography of those years. But no, this latest film adaptation of "Oliver Twist" -- well over 20 film and TV versions going back to 1906 are listed on IMDb -- trudges down the same worn path.

Not that this isn't a respectable production with a fine ensemble cast headed by Ben Kingsley, who manages to make the villainous Fagin a sinister and tragic figure. But the spark that an original point of view might bring to the oft-told tale is missing.

For one of the few times in his career, Polanski has made a family film, and "Oliver Twist" should be promoted as such. Certainly the film will work best with young viewers unexposed to the story. With Polanski's name as a selling point, the film should produce decent boxoffice numbers around the world.

When Dickens penned "Oliver Twist", he was filled with moral outrage over the social oppression he saw everywhere. But we can no longer react to these revelations in the same manner as his early readers. Thus, the scenes with the awful Mr. Bumble (Jeremy Swift) in the workhouse, where Oliver comes at age 9, or the sham justice meted out by a foul-tempered judge now play as comedy. Indeed, Polanski encourages his actors to ham up these scenes. Simply put, these depicitons of social injustice have lost their bite.

Barney Clark does an admirable job of playing the naive though plucky youth, finding more adventures than he might wish in the mean streets of the city of London. The film's other child actor, Harry Eden, has boisterous fun with the Artful Dodger.

The story, of course, has two villains. Kingsley's Fagin is not the same man Ron Moody played in the Oscar-winning musical "Oliver!" Kingsley eschews the comedy (though not the wit) to let us see a sly man dedicated to crime and the exploitation of children and women. And Jamie Foreman's Bill Sykes is a man of violence with a filthy tempter and a good word for nobody. His is, alas, the most contemporary of the film's characters.

In truth, some of Dickens' melodrama is crude and unconvincing. Oliver's surprising upward mobility, owing to little more than the fact he is a cute kid, feels less likely than ever, a romantic vision imposed on the tale to obscure the darker realities of the age.

Allan Starski's sets, build in the Czech Republic's Barrandov Studios, are not terribly convincing, either. They have the look and feel of sets, sometimes with a painting of St. Paul's dome off in the distance. All other technical contributions are solid if unexciting.

OLIVER TWIST

TriStar Pictures

Credits:

Director: Roman Polanski

Screenwriter: Ronald Harwood

Based on the novel by: Charles Dickens

Producers: Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde, Roman Polanski

Director of photography: Pawel Edelman

Production designer: Allan Starski

Music: Rachel Portman

Costumes: Anna B. Sheppard

Editor: Herve de Luze

Cast:

Fagin: Ben Kingsley

Oliver: Barney Clark

Bill Sykes: Jamie Foreman

Artful Dodger: Harry Eden

Nancy: Leanne Rowe, Charlie: Lewis Chase

Mr Brownlow: Edward Hardwicke

Mr. Bumble: Jeremy Swift

Toby: Mark Strong

MPAA rating PG-13

Running time -- 132 minutes...