Product Details

• Actors: Melanie Griffith, Jeremy Irons, Frank Langella, Keith Reddin, Suzanne Shepherd
• Directors: Adrian Lyne
• Format: Dolby, Full Screen, Subtitled, Import, NTSC
• Subtitles: Chinese, English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Castaway Pictures
• DVD Release Date: September 18, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000FS9NWS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #29,412 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great film!!, April 14, 2010

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C. Davis "Chris" (Kansas City, Missouri USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lolita (DVD)

Lolita has a great story with an excellent cast.

Lolita is a 1997 drama film directed by Adrian Lyne and is the second screen adaptation of the novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov. The film 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. It concerns the story of an English professor's obsession with his landlady's flirtatious daughter, and his desiring attempts to possess her. Lolita was originally filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962, when much of the novel's content was toned down significantly due to censorship restrictions. In a less conservative era, British director Adrian Lyne began filming his own adaptation.

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Lolita is totally worth getting on DVD!!
(The DVD sold by Amazon is in fact a Chinese DVD version of Lolita, but plays on all DVD players.)

14 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully done, March 26, 2010

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taaj (VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lolita (DVD)

Lolita is a horribly disturbing tale of pedophilia and the lengths that some people will go to to pursue it and disguise it. It's very hard to watch. In fact, the first time I tried to watch it, I couldn't. That said, it's beautifully done and perfectly cast. I am not normally a fan of Melanie Griffith, but she is superb in being a naive female who has a smattering of jealousy for her blossoming daughter. She appears genuine in her desire to be loved and respectable. Dominique Swain does an absolutely fantastic job of moving between the vulnerable little girl who wants a daddy and the budding teen. She tries to desperately to be as grown up as the role she is thrust into, but you can't help but see through to the tender little girl. Jeremy Irons is wonderful. You can see his mind calculating then fighting against itself. He's supposed to be Lolita's dad, and sometimes acts like it, but we can see Lolita taking the power away from him. In the end, Jeremy Iron's explanations and excuses for his failings expose his mental illness to the world. The last picture we see of Lolita barefoot, poor and pregnant is all that could be expected after being so horribly abandoned by her dad, neglected by her mom, and used by the other men in her life that she just wanted to love. I'm not a pedophile so I can't tell you if this is a realistic view of how it could be, but it rings true. It's full of contradictions, pain, joy, and confusion- just like life.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars cd works fine for my Region One DVD player, February 23, 2010

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Steven Baster "Nikki Baster" (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lolita (DVD)

I actually did not read the reviews until after the package arrived and I had not yet opened.. I was scared that it would not work on my dvd player but just popped it in and it is working just fine. Not sure why Some people are saying it doesn't work on theirs. I live in the US. Anyway.. Great Film.. Sadness, Beauty I love it much more than the original