Lolita

This in no way lives up to the 1962 version helmed by Kubrick and scripted by Vladimir Nabokov himself. No, this is an entirely different beast. Jeremy Irons and Melanie Griffith are great actors in their own rights but they sre aren't James Mason and Shelley Winters though I will give Dominique Swain the leg up on Sue Lyon. Still, this is a story dealing with sexual perversion of the greatest kind hence why Adrian Lyne would be drawn to it. It' s afine version, well acted, beautifully shot and finely paced. Perhaps a bit slow for the mainstream North American audiences it does nonetheless possess a powerful punch...as long as you don't try to compare it to the Kubrick version.