He rents a room in the home of widow Charlotte Haze, largely because he is sexually attracted to her 14-year-old daughter Dolores, also called "Lo", whom he sees while touring the house. In 1947, Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged European professor of English literature, travels to the United States to take a teaching position in New Hampshire. Similarly, Lolita was met with much controversy in Australia, where it was not given a theatrical release until April 1999. The film was eventually picked up by Showtime, a cable network, before finally being released theatrically by The Samuel Goldwyn Company. The film premiered in Europe in 1997 before being released in the United States in 1998 because it had difficulty finding an American distributor. Although praised by some critics for its faithfulness to Nabokov's narrative and for the performances of Irons and Swain, the film received a mixed critical reception in the United States. Lyne's film has a more overt treatment for many of the novel's darker elements when compared to Stanley Kubrick's 1962 version, which used suggestion and innuendo for comic purposes. Obsessed with the girl, he eventually has her to himself after they embark on an all-American road trip together. He rents a room in the house of a young widow to get closer to her daughter, whom he calls "Lolita". The film is about a middle-aged professor who is sexually attracted to adolescent girls he calls " nymphets". It is the second screen adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 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. Lolita is a 1997 drama film directed by Adrian Lyne and written by Stephen Schiff.
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