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Lolita (1997) -- A man marries his landlady so he can take advantage of her daughter.
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Overview

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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Vladimir Nabokov (novel)
Stephen Schiff (screenplay)
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Release Date:
25 September 1998 (USA) more
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Tagline:
A forbidden love. An unthinkable attraction. The ultimate price. more
Plot:
A man marries his landlady so he can take advantage of her daughter. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 3 nominations more
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(17 articles)
David Thomson on Frank Langella
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Art is a divine game more (184 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Jeremy Irons ... Humbert Humbert

Melanie Griffith ... Charlotte Haze

Frank Langella ... Clare Quilty
Dominique Swain ... Dolores 'Lolita' Haze
Suzanne Shepherd ... Miss Pratt
Keith Reddin ... Reverend Rigger
Erin J. Dean ... Mona
Joan Glover ... Miss LaBone
Pat Pierre Perkins ... Louise (as Pat P. Perkins)

Ed Grady ... Dr. Melinik
Michael Goodwin ... Mr. Beale
Angela Paton ... Mrs. Holmes

Ben Silverstone ... Young Humbert Humbert
Emma Griffiths Malin ... Annabel Lee (as Emma Griffiths-Malin)
Ronald Pickup ... Young Humbert's Father
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Lolita (France)
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MPAA:
Rated R for aberrant sexuality, a strong scene of violence, nudity and some language.
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137 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Nadia Litz auditioned for the title role. more
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Anachronisms: The film set around 1947 features a 'Magic Fingers' (brand) vibrating bed. However, this was a 1958 invention by former salesman John Houghtaling. more
Quotes:
Miss Pratt: She's a lovely child, Mr. Haze, but the onset of sexual maturing seems to be giving her trouble. It is the general impression that 14-year-old Dolores is morbidly disinterested in sexual matters. more
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Featured in Starz Inside: Sex and the Cinema (2009) (TV) more
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Stardust more

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12 out of 15 people found the following comment useful.
Art is a divine game, 11 September 2006
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Author: karl_consiglio from Malta

I had read Nabokov's book and watched the older movie too. What i liked about this more recent version is Jeremy Irons playing the part of Humbert Humbert and so precisely. This film in my eyes had a certain Kubrick quality to it. This is high souled genius if you ask me with a fervent faith that art is a divine game. and that pleasure in art consists in following the moves of the game with the artist himself when he communicates his own playful and Godlike bliss. Poet and pervert, Humbert becomes obsessed with twelve year old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first physically and then artistically, out of love. The magic of nymphets. This is a dizzying seduction, a masterpiece in a strange dimension, very rich. Lolita is a major work in fiction, equally intense as wildly funny. A Medusa's head with trick paper snakes chewing gum. Beautiful and original, pervasively and continuously funny, with a humour that is both savage and farcical which comes to a most interesting and I repeat most interesting and unexpected ending.

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