Lolita (1997 film)

Lolita is a 1997 FrenchAmerican drama film written by Stephen Schiff and directed by Adrian Lyne. It is the second screen adaptation of Vladimir Nabokovs novel of the same name and stars Jeremy Irons as Humbert Humbert and Dominique Swain as Dolores Lolita Haze, with supporting roles by Melanie Griffith as Charlotte Haze, and Frank Langella as Clare Quilty.

In 1947, Humbert Humbert Jeremy Irons, a European professor of French literature, travels to the United States to take a teaching position in New Hampshire. He rents a room in the home of widow Charlotte Haze Melanie Griffith, largely because he sees her adolescent daughter Dolores Dominique Swain, also called Lo, while touring the house. Obsessed from boyhood with girls of this age whom he calls nymphets, Humbert is immediately smitten with Lo and marries Charlotte just to be near her.Charlotte finds Humberts secret diary and discovers his preference for her daughter. Furious, Charlotte runs out of the house, when she is struck by a car and killed. Her death frees Humbert to pursue a sexual relationship with Lo, whom he nicknames Lolita. Humbert and Lo then travel the country, staying in various motels before eventually settling in the college town of Beardsley, where Humbert takes a teaching job. However, Los increasing boredom with Humbert, combined with her growing desire for independence, fuels a constant tension that led to a huge fight between them. Humberts desperate affections for Lo are also rivaled by another man, playwright Clare Quilty Frank Langella, who has been pursuing Lo since the beginning of their travels. Lo eventually schemes to escape with Quilty, whose name Humbert doesnt know, and he searches for them unsuccessfully. ........

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