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Lolita

  • 19971997
  • RR
  • 2h 17m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
59K
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POPULARITY
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Dominique Swain in Lolita (1997)
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An English professor falls for a minor, and has to face the consequences of his actions.An English professor falls for a minor, and has to face the consequences of his actions.An English professor falls for a minor, and has to face the consequences of his actions.
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
59K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
339
105
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    • Director
      • Adrian Lyne
    • Writers
      • Vladimir Nabokov(novel "Lolita")
      • Stephen Schiff(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Jeremy Irons
      • Dominique Swain
      • Melanie Griffith
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Adrian Lyne
    • Writers
      • Vladimir Nabokov(novel "Lolita")
      • Stephen Schiff(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Jeremy Irons
      • Dominique Swain
      • Melanie Griffith
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 264User reviews
    • 47Critic reviews
    • 46Metascore
    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 4 nominations

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    Jeremy Irons and Dominique Swain in Lolita (1997)
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    Jeremy Irons and Dominique Swain in Lolita (1997)

    Top cast

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    Jeremy Irons
    Jeremy Irons
    • Humbert Humbert
    Dominique Swain
    Dominique Swain
    • Dolores 'Lolita' Haze
    Melanie Griffith
    Melanie Griffith
    • Charlotte Haze
    Frank Langella
    Frank Langella
    • Clare Quilty
    Suzanne Shepherd
    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
    Ed Grady
    • Dr. Melinik
    Michael Goodwin
    Michael Goodwin
    • Mr. Beale
    Angela Paton
    Angela Paton
    • Mrs. Holmes
    Ben Silverstone
    Ben Silverstone
    • Young Humbert Humbert
    Emma Griffiths Malin
    Emma Griffiths Malin
    • Annabel Lee
    • (as Emma Griffiths-Malin)
    Ronald Pickup
    Ronald Pickup
    • Young Humbert's Father
    Michael Culkin
    Michael Culkin
    • Mr. Leigh
    Annabelle Apsion
    Annabelle Apsion
    • Mrs. Leigh
    Don Brady
    • Frank McCoo
    • Director
      • Adrian Lyne
    • Writers
      • Vladimir Nabokov(novel "Lolita")
      • Stephen Schiff(screenplay)
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      As Dominique Swain was a minor at age 15 when the movie was filmed, an adult body double had to be used for most of the sex scenes.
    • Goofs
      Charlotte threatens to "ground" Lolita. Though the term was known to airmen it would not assume its current familiar meaning for many years.
    • Quotes

      [first lines]

      Humbert: [voiceover] She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks, she was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always - Lolita. Light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin. My soul.

      [whispered]

      Humbert: Lolita.

    • Crazy credits
      After the credits are over there is a brief clip where Lolita is shown juggling a red apple.
    • Alternate versions
      The film was slightly cut to avoid a 'Not under 18' rating in Germany. An uncut version has been released on video.
    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: The Mask of Zorro/Polish Wedding/There's Something About Mary/Lolita/Poodle Springs (1998)
    • Soundtracks
      Stormy Weather
      Written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler

      Performed by Lena Horne

    User reviews264

    Review
    Top review
    Worth seeing if you love the novel
    Nabokov's best novel save for Pale Fire will probably never get an "ideal" filming, unless someone decides to actually commit Nabokov's own script to celluloid (he wrote it for the 1962 version, and his name appears in the credits, but the finished product was almost wholly the product of Kubrick's pen and Peter Sellers' ad-libbing). But I like both the Kubrick and the Lyne versions, with reservations.

    With Kubrick's, the only real problem is that it's not Nabokov. James Mason's performance contains the core of an accurate portrayal of Humbert, and he's often moving. But Sue Lyon was too old for her part and Sellers' Quilty is an altogether different conception from the author's (not that he isn't lots of fun). The film also suffers from having been filmed in the UK. Nabokov had a complex vision of America - vast, tacky, seductive, and grindingly mundane all at the same time - and this just can't be conveyed in a studio and with a few well-chosen locations.

    That's where Lyne's version excels. His compositions (or his cinematographer's) are indeed beautiful to look at, and (I think) capture suburban and roadside America very much the way Humbert would have experienced them. Irons is fine as Humbert, although the typecasting was initially painful to contemplate, and Swain is a vast improvement over Lyon as young Dolores: still a bit too old for the part (an inevitable problem, perhaps, for anyone who wants to film this book), but her intelligent performance makes up for this. Despite his cheesy reputation, Lyne wisely refrains from making his Lolita a teenage bombshell, something the more artistic Kubrick couldn't resist.

    Again, however, the problem is Quilty. Both directors obviously felt compelled to render in three dimensions a character who is one of Nabokov's phantoms: Does he really exist? Who is he and what do we know about him, outside of Humbert's increasingly paranoid imaginings? Can we trust anything at all that's said about him in this book? I expect that Nabokov himself regretted having to bring Quilty out of the shadows at all for the denouement.

    Sellers carried off the role with style, making you forget for a moment that his routines seem to have wandered in from another film. Lyne turns the final confrontation between Humbert and Quilty (there is no flashback framing device, as in Kubrick) into pure Grand Guignol, and so we have to endure watching poor, paunchy Frank Langella running down a hallway of his ridiculously overstuffed house, his bathrobe falling open to reveal his endowments to our embarrassed gaze before being blown away Dirty Harry-style by the avenging Humbert. A major wrong note to say the least.

    So Quilty, in the end, defeats both of Nabokov's filmic approximators. But if you love the book, see both movies: Kubrick and Lyne each capture different aspects of the master's great story in valuable ways, and the new Lolita is clearly Lyne's best work yet, proving that a great novel can inspire excellent filmmaking, if not guarantee an "ideal" adaptation.

    What we really need now, however, is not a third version of Lolita, but finally, a filming of Lolita: A Screenplay. Nabokov had fun writing this, and any fan of his should read his script as well. Wouldn't you like to see a move of Lolita in which Humbert, searching through the woods for his Lo, encounters a butterfly collector named Vladimir Nabokov? Of course you would!
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • September 25, 1998 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Nàng Lolita
    • Filming locations
      • El Paso, Texas, USA
    • Production companies
      • Guild
      • Lolita Productions
      • Pathe UK
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $62,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $1,071,255
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $19,492
      • Jul 26, 1998
    • Gross worldwide
      • $1,071,255
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 17 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • SDDS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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