With a screenplay penned by the author himself, Stanley Kubrick brings Vladimir Nabokov's controversial tale of forbidden love to the screen. Humbert Humbert is a European professor who relocates to an American suburb, renting a room from lonely widow Charlotte Haze . Humbert marries Charlotte, but only to nurture his obsession with her comely teenage daughter, Lolita . After Charlotte's sudden death, Humbert has Lolita all to himself -- or does he?