The film is a remake of a 1962 black and white film directed by Stanley Kubrick, and starring James Mason, which has already been shown on TV here. Naturally the older version is not nearly so explicit.
The story is about a middle-aged man who marries a young mother, so that he can be close to her teenage daughter, since these two are having a bit of an affair. However, little darling's heart belongs to another, leading to tragedy all round.
137 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Sex, Nudity, Violence, Language
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Romance, Drama, Sex
| Cast |
Jeremy Irons, Melanie Griffith, Frank Langella, Dominique Swain, Suzanne Shepherd |
| Director |
Adrian Lyne |
| Screenplay | Stephen Schiff, from the novel by Vladimir Nabokov |
| Music | Ennio Morricone |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound |
| Made in | 1997 |
| Produced by | Guild, Pathé |
| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus Owen Williams | 15 |  |
| The Cape Times Julia Landau | 15 | |
| The Star Peter Feldman | 10 |  |
| The Star Darryl Accone | 14 | |
| Die Burger Gabriël Botma | 15 | |
| Sunday Times William Pretorius | 15 | |
| Rapport Barrie Hough | 18 | |
| TV2 Leon at the Movies Leon van Nierop | 18 | |
| TV2 Pasella Derrich Gardner | 16 | |
| SAfm Sunday Alan Swerdlow | 14 | |
| Empire Angie Errigo | 15 | |
| Film Review James Cameron-Wilson | 15 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 131 Netizens | 17 | |
Average .. 76% | 15 | |
| Scale (Max) | 20 | |
| Bruce Humphrey | 17 | |
| Lex Faurè | 16 | |
| Warren Radloff | 16 | |
Average .. 82% | 16 | |