Lolita (1997 film)
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| Directed by | Adrian Lyne |
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| Screenplay by | Stephen Schiff |
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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov |
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| Music by | Ennio Morricone |
| Cinematography | Howard Atherton |
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| Distributed by | The Samuel Goldwyn Company |
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137 minutes |
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| Language | English |
| Budget | $62 million |
| Box office | $1.1 million (US) |
Lolita is a 1997 American-French drama film directed by Adrian Lyne and written by Stephen Schiff. It is the second screen adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel of the same name and stars Jeremy Irons as Humbert Humbert and Dominique Swain as Dolores "Lolita" Haze, with supporting roles by Melanie Griffith as Charlotte Haze, and Frank Langella as Clare Quilty. The film is about a middle-aged male professor, Humbert (Irons), who rents a room in the house of the widow Charlotte Haze (Griffith), because he is sexually attracted to her adolescent daughter Dolores (Swain), also called "Lo" or "Lolita".
The film had considerable difficulty finding an American distributor and premiered in Europe before being released in America, where it was met with much controversy due to its use of a child molester as the main character, Humbert. The film was picked up in the United States by Showtime, a cable network, before finally being released theatrically by The Samuel Goldwyn Company. The performances by Irons and Swain impressed audiences, but, although praised by some critics for its faithfulness to Nabokov's narrative, the film received a mixed critical reception in the United States. Lolita was met with much controversy in Australia–it was not given a theatrical release in the country until April 1999.
In 1947, Humbert Humbert (Irons), a middle-aged European professor of French literature, travels to the United States to take a teaching position in New Hampshire. He rents a room in the home of widow Charlotte Haze, largely because he is attracted to her adolescent daughter Dolores, also called "Lo", who he sees while touring the house. Obsessed from boyhood with girls of this age (whom he calls "nymphets"), Humbert is immediately smitten with Lo and marries Charlotte just to be near her.
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