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Lolita

Name: Lolita
Director: Adrian Lyne
Genre: Drama
Released: 1997-09-27
Duration: 137 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Dominique Swain, Melanie Griffith, Frank Langella, Suzanne Shepherd

1997 · 2h 17m · Drama

IMDb 6.8 Metacritic 46 RT 69%

This is a masterclass in unreliable narration and psychological manipulation—Stanley Kubrick's adaptation is genuinely unsettling and brilliant, not exploitative. Watch it tonight if you're ready for something challenging and darkly complex, but skip it if you want comfort or easy answers.

Plot

Humbert 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.

Director: Adrian Lyne

Cast: Jeremy Irons, Dominique Swain, Melanie Griffith, Frank Langella, Suzanne Shepherd

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