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DVD Release Date
• R1: Jun 29, 1999
• R2: 10 Sep 2001
Budget $2,000,000
Running Time
2 hours, 32 minutes
Country USA, UK
Studio MGM, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Seven Arts
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Genre: Romance, Drama, Comedy, Murder, Racy, Black Comedy, Satire, Love, School / Campus, Teenage, Psychodrama, Doctor, Marriage, Cult Classic
Tagline: How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?
Plot: Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial LOLITA is a wicked satire of sexual obsession, sadomasochism, and fetishism. When mild-mannered professor Humbert Humbert (James Mason) arrives in the small town of Ramsdale, New Hampshire, he is immediately set upon by his landlady, Charlotte Haze (Shelley Winters), and her adolescent daughter, Lolita (Sue Lyon). Although Humbert gets involved with Charlotte, it is Lolita with whom he becomes obsessed. When Charlotte sends her daughter away to summer camp (the aptly named Camp Climax), Humbert becomes consumed with jealousy. He finally takes Lolita out of camp and heads out alone with her. He is pestered along the way by Clare Quilty (played magnificently by Peter Sellers), who threatens to expose him. But nothing can break the hold Lolita has over Humbert.From the opening credits sequence--a close-up of a man's hand (with a wedding ring) carefully polishing a young girl's toenails--Kubrick's biting, darkly comic LOLITA burns with sexual energy as it follows the debasement of an intelligent, worldly man in a series of carefully choreographed long takes that boil over with psychosexual tension. Although little physical contact is shown, Kubrick hints at it beautifully, especially in the drive-in scene in which
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Sue Lyon
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