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Name: Lolita
Released: 1962-6-13
Cast: James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, Sue Lyon, Marianne Stone

Lolita

UR
2h 17m
1962

91%

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Stanley Kubrick directs an all-star cast in Vladimir Nabakov's screenplay of his own once-shocking, now-classic novel, Lolita. When worldly, middle-aged professor Humbert Humbert (James Mason) rents a room from widowed Charlotte Haze (Shelly Winters), he quickly becomes obsessed with her young daughter, Lolita (Sue Lyon). Humbert goes so far as to marry Charlotte to be close to her daughter, but when Charlotte discovers her husband's secret lust, the knowledge leads to her death. Now free to pursue his obsession with his willing, under-aged stepdaughter, Humbert seduces Lolita, unable to control a lust that will destroy him.

Director:

Stanley Kubrick

Producer:

James B. Harris

Writer:

Vladimir Nabakov

Cast:

James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers, Sue Lyon, Marianne Stone, Gary Cockrell, Diana Decker, Jerry Stovin, Susanne Gibbs

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

91%

Critics Consensus: Kubrick's Lolita adapts its seemingly unadaptable source material with a sly comedic touch and a sterling performance by James Mason that transforms the controversial novel into something refreshingly new without sacrificing its essential edge.

Reviews

Partisan Review

Pauline Kael

The surprise of Lolita is how enjoyable it is: it’s the first new American comedy since those great days in the 1940’s when Preston Sturges recreated comedy with verbal slapstick.

Essentially, Kubrick uses Nabokov’s story, and sexual fixation in general, for a meditation on people driven mad by what they can’t have.

Lolita is a disappointment because we have a right to expect more from Kubrick (he may come through with his next, which I am told is to be a satirical treatment of the nuclear "defense" problem).

An epically misbegotten, misguided adaptation...

As a Kubrick film... virtually everything it does well was done better in his filmography.

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