Lolita (1997 movie)
Lolita is a 1997 French-American drama movie. It is set in the late 1940s and early 1950s in the United States. It is about a relationship between a man in his forties and a 14 year old girl named Lolita after he marries her mother. Dominique Swain plays Dolores "Lolita" Haze. Jeremy Irons plays Humbert Humbert. Melanie Griffith plays Charlotte Haze. Frank Langella plays Clare Quilty, who lures Lolita away to perform in pornography.
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| Directed by | Adrian Lyne |
| Screenplay by | Stephen Schiff |
| Based on | Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov |
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| Cinematography | Howard Atherton |
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| Music by | Ennio Morricone |
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| Distributed by | The Samuel Goldwyn Company |
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Running time | 137 minutes[1] |
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| Language | English |
| Budget | $62 million[2] |
| Box office | $1.1 million (US)[3] |
The film had difficulty finding an American distributor[4] and premiered in Europe before being released in America. The film was eventually picked up in the United States by Showtime, a cable network, before finally being released theatrically by The Samuel Goldwyn Company.[5]
The movie got good reviews from the critics. It did poorly at the box office.
It was the second movie made from the book Lolita.
Cast
change- Jeremy Irons as Professor Humbert Humbert
- Ben Silverstone as young Humbert
- Dominique Swain as Dolores "Lolita" Haze
- Frank Langella as Clare Quilty
- Melanie Griffith as Charlotte Haze
- Suzanne Shepherd as Miss Pratt
- Keith Reddin as Reverend Piggy
- Erin J. Dean as Mona
- Joan Glover as Miss LaBone
- Ed Grady as Dr. Melinik
- Michael Goodwin as Mr. Beale
- Angela Paton as Mrs. Holmes
- Emma Griffiths-Malin as Annabel Lee
- Ronald Pickup as young Humbert's father
- Michael Culkin as Mr. Leigh
- Annabelle Apsion as Mrs. Leigh
References
change- ↑ "LOLITA (18)". British Board of Film Classification. March 18, 1998. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
- ↑ "Lolita (1998)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 15 August 2011.
- ↑ "Movie Lolita – Box Office Data". The Numbers. Archived from the original on 2 October 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2011.
- ↑ James, Caryn (1998-07-31). "'Lolita': Revisiting a Dangerous Obsession". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-03-28.
- ↑ Black, Joel (2002). The Reality Effect: Film culture and the graphic imperative. New York: Routledge. p. 262. ISBN 0-415-93721-3.
Other websites
change- Lolita on IMDb
- Lolita at Box Office Mojo
- Lolita at Rotten Tomatoes
- Lolita at Metacritic
