Lolita (1997)
A man marries his landlady so he can take advantage of her daughter.
- Director:Adrian Lyne
- Genre:Drama / Romance
- Runtime:132 minutes
Cast
Jeremy Irons : Humbert Humbert
Melanie Griffith : Charlotte Haze
Frank Langella : Clare Quilty
Dominique Swain : Dolores ‘Lolita’ Haze
Suzanne Shepherd : Miss Pratt
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In 1947 Humbert Humbert, a European professor of French literature, travels to New Hampshire, in the United States, to take a teaching position. He rents a room in the home of widow Charlotte Haze, largely because he sees her adolescent daughter, Dolores (aged 12 in Nabokov’s novel but seemingly slightly older in the film and variously called “Dolly” or “Lo”), while touring the house. Obsessed from boyhood with young girls of this age, whom he calls nymphets, partly because of an early sexual experience and tragic loss, Humbert marries Charlotte for the sake of access to her daughter.
Charlotte’s untimely death, shortly after she discovers his preference for her daughter, frees Humbert to pursue a sexual and emotional relationship with Dolores, whom he nicknames ‘Lolita’. The two travel the country for a few years, staying in various motels but eventually settling in a college town where Humbert takes a teaching job. However, Lolita’s increasing boredom with Humbert, as well as her growing desire for independence, fuels a constant tension between them. Humbert’s desperate affections for Lo are also rivaled by a more devious and experienced nymphet lover, the playwright Clare Quilty, who has been pursuing Lo from the beginning. Quilty’s name and identity are at first unknown to Humbert, and when Lolita runs away to him, Humbert’s search for her is unsuccessful.
Three years later, after a receiving a letter asking for financial help, Humbert visits the now 17-year-old Lolita, married to another man and pregnant. His love for her remains, in spite of her circumstances, but she refuses to return to him. He relents and gives her a substantial amount of money and information about her inheritance from her mother. He also discovers the name of his nemesis, Quilty, whom he hunts down and murders. Read more
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