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Here's how the world has turned: the new movie version of Lolita is at this moment playing without any particular controversy in Moscow, former capital of hopelessly square Soviet socialist morality. After something like a year of relentless salesmanship, producers of Adrian Lyne's near reverent (but by no means inept or exploitative) adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's modernist classic has yet to find a theatrical distributor in the U.S., where, of course, morally ambivalent entanglements between older men and younger women have lately been hot news...
...should be said, flat out, that Lyne's Lolita is not a movie we need to be protected from. If it offers a certain sympathetic understanding of Jeremy Irons' gently wistful Humbert Humbert, he is more than adequately punished for his nymphetomania. If Lolita, in Dominique Swain's marvelous performance--a mercurial blend of the guileful and guileless--is as much victimizer as victim, well, such creatures are not unknown in life...
That said, however, it's easy to see why so many distributors have passed on this Lolita, using as a primary excuse the constitutionally dubious 1996 federal law that prohibits showing sexually suggestive acts with children. But the commercial problem is not so much with the movie Lyne made, working from Stephen Schiff's carefully crafted script, as with the movies he didn't make...
...confused with the progressive national political organization of the same name founded by former California Governor Jerry Brown. Members of this group, in conjunction with the Green Party, are working in 45 states to place Ralph Nader's name on the ballot for President of the U.S. GEORGE N. LYNE East Coast Coordinator We the People Ellenton, Florida...
...interesting movie in that. But this ga-ga film goes for the moral dilemma. Diana and her husband (Woody Harrelson) debate the offer forever before she accepts. They quarrel while Diana and her one-night stand get lovey-dovey, but then things turn out fine. Because director Adrian Lyne takes all this so slowly and seriously, Indecent Proposal is an inadvertent comedy. As such, it is much funnier than Honeymoon in Vegas, which tried in vain to be funny about the same idea...