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7.1Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
Cast
- Jeremy Irons as Humbert Humbert
- Dominique Swain as Dolores "Lolita" Haze
- Melanie Griffith as Charlotte Haze
- Frank Langella as Clare Quilty
- Suzanne Shepherd as Miss Pratt
- Keith Reddin as Reverend Rigger
Themes
- jealousy
- based on novel or book
- police
- obsession
- professor
- blackmail
- seduction
- road trip
- teacher
- love
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Adrian Lyne
- Screenplay by
- Stephen Schiff
- Based on
- Lolita , by Vladimir Nabokov
- Produced by
- Mario Kassar Joel B. Michaels
- Starring
- Jeremy Irons Melanie Griffith Frank Langella Dominique Swain
- Cinematography
- Howard Atherton
- Edited by
- Julie Monroe David Brenner
- Music by
- Ennio Morricone
- Production company
- Pathé
- Distributed by
- The Samuel Goldwyn Company (United States) AMLF (France)
- Release dates
- September 19, 1997 ( 1997-09-19 ) ( SSIFF ) January 14, 1998 ( 1998-01-14 ) (France) September 25, 1998 ( 1998-09-25 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 137 minutes
- Countries
- United States France
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $62 million
- Box office
- $1.1 million (US)
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Encyclopedic overview
Lolita is a 1997 drama film directed by Adrian Lyne and written by Stephen Schiff. It is the second screen adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel 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 professor who is sexually attracted to adolescent girls he calls "nymphets". He rents a room in the house of a young widow to get closer to her 14-year-old daughter Dolores "Lo" Haze, whom he calls "Lolita". Obsessed with the girl, he eventually gains control over her after he takes her cross-country with him.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lolita” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.