Lolita (1998)


Jeremy Irons            Humbert Humbert
Melanie Griffith        Charlotte Haze
Frank Langella          Clare Quilty
Dominique Swain         Lolita Haze
Suzanne Shepherd        Miss Pratt
Keith Reddin (II)       Reverend Rigger
Erin J. Dean            Mona
Joan Glover             Miss LeBone
Pat P. Perkins          Louise
Ed Grady                Doctor Melnick
Michael Goodwin         Mr Beale
Angela Paton            Mrs Holmes
Ben Silverstone         Young Humbert Humbert
Emma Griffiths Malin    Annabel Leigh
Ronald Pickup           Young Humbert s Father
Michael Culkin          Mr Leigh
Annabelle Apsion        Mrs Leigh
Don Brady               Frank McCoo

Directed by:            Adrian Lyne
Produced by:            Mario Kassar, Joel B. Michaels


The year is 1947 and Humbert Humbert, a professor of French literature, travels to a small town 
to take a teaching post. He rooms with a sexy widow named Charlotte Haze and her 12-year-old daughter 
Lolita. Charlotte sees the dashing Humbert as the fulfillment of all her dreams and avidly begins to 
pursue him as a future husband. But the professor carries with him a poisonous wound: the indelible 
memory of a frustrated childhood romance that ended with the untimely death of his 12-year-old love. 
The unrequited past pushes Humbert towards the fulfillment of his own dreams: Lolita. While Charlotte 
courts Humbert, he finds himself courting Lolita. Through an extraordinary series of twists, Humbert 
wins her affections until the evil Quilty enters the picture. Together the oddest of couples sets off 
on a cross-country trip across America that concludes in tragedy. 

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Humbert Humbert, a British professor coming to the US to teach, rents a room in Charlotte Haze's house, 
but only after he sees her 14-year-old daughter, Dolores (Lolita), to whom he is immediately attracted. 
Though he hates the mother, he marries her as this is the only way to be close to the girl, who will 
prove to be too mature for her age. They start a journey together, trying to hide they're not just 
(step)father and daughter, throughout the country, being followed by someone whom Humbert first suspects 
to be from the police. The profound jealousy, and maybe some guilt from the forbidden love, seem slowly 
to drive the man emotionally labile.