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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 |
Production company | Pathé |
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] |
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.
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.