Other Titles • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? • Wer hat Angst vor Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Synopses for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
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In director Mike Nichols's excellent adaptation of Edward Albee's dark play, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor shine as George, a disillusioned professor, and Martha, his brutally acerbic wife, who invite a younger couple into their home. George and Martha appear to be the perfect party hosts--they have a well-stocked bar and each possesses a rapier-sharp wit. But when they invite Nick (George Segal), a new college professor, and Honey (Sandy Dennis), his mousy young wife, over for drinks late one evening, their verbal sparring quickly degenerates into scathing attacks on each other and their guests. At first drawn together in their horror, Nick and Honey soon find themselves sucked into the spiral of buried resentments and unspoken rage that George and Martha have unleashed. Yet as the seemingly perfect marriage of the young professor and his wife begins to reveal its many flaws, George and Martha find their own twisted bond within the mutual rancor. The onscreen chemistry between former real-life couple Taylor and Burton adds sparks to Ernest Lehman's tight script for Nichols's feature-film directing debut. And as the blowsy, bitter Martha, Taylor gives an Oscar-winning performance that many call the best of her entire career.
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Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are ideal as malevolent marrieds George and Martha in first-time film director Mike Nichols' searing film of Edward Albee's Broadway hit Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? Taylor won her second Academy Award. Burton matches her as her emotionally spent spouse. And George Segal and Sandy Dennis score as another couple straying into their destructive path.
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