Have you ever been in a relationship and the person you were
seeing was a few years younger than you were? Some would be a little concerned
while others wouldn’t think much of it, but what would happen if say you were a
middle aged man and you fall in love with a girl that was more than twenty
years younger than you were?
Well in this movie middle aged man, Professor Humbert
Humbert (yes that is the character’s name) played by James Mason, becomes
obsessed with young fourteen year old Lolita played by Sue Lyon. He meets the
young girl during his vacation at her house that had an extra room for rent.
There he also meets Lolita’s mother who is a love sick widow played by Shelly
Winters who tries awfully hard to capture the attention of the professor. After realizing he wants to always be with
Lolita and yet avoid any suspicion he must marry the girl’s mother to be close
to her.
Later
in the movie Lolita’s mother finds out that the professor has had feelings for
her daughter. Out raged she decides to leave him except in that process she is
hit and killed by a moving car. This makes things a bit complicated for the
professor because he must now be the father of the girl he’s in love with and
also has to hide her from a mysterious stalker who is also very attracted to
Lolita as well. This movie was released in 1962 and is based on the novel
“Lolita” written by Vladimir Nabokov
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