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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) More at IMDbPro »

Martha and George, a self-destructive, embattled couple, live a corrosive married life on the campus of a New England college. Martha (ELIZABETH TAYLOR) is a somewhat sloppy woman whose loud-mouthed vulgarity covers up tumultuous frustrations and a deeply feminine vulnerability. Her father is the college president, a man George describes at "a great big white mouse, with little beady red eyes." George (RICHARD BURTON), sharp of tongue and waspish of wit, suffers from a lost idealism. He has a great command of the language . . . but little else. He is a professor in the history department, but he is not the history department, as Martha endlessly points out. Late one Saturday night, they come home from a party and await the arrival of the "new" couple whom Martha invited over for drinks. As usual, Martha and George are clawing at each other, humiliating one another, trying to destroy one another, and drinking. As Nick and Honey arrive, George warns his wife not to "start in on the bit ... the bit about the kid." Nick (GEORGE SEGAL) is ruggedly good-looking, with a blandness and politeness that merely keep in control his aggressive hostility, and cover the devious ways of his ambition. He is a new member of the college biology department. His wife, Honey (SANDY DENNIS), is a plain, midwestern type, socially awkward and unwittingly amusing. She can't drink very well, and she tries to avoid facing the fact that her husband probably doesn't like her very much. Thus the scene is set for a nightmarish Walpurgis Night with Martha and George, Honey and Nick. It's a bruising night of fun and games that moves viciously from "Humiliate the Host" to "Get the Guests." It's a night of bared souls and misfired lust and spiritual cannibalism. It lasts until the dawn when the exorcism is complete.