Film

Lolita 1962

Directed by Stanley Kubrick

  • Drama
  • 154 min
  • NR

How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

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