Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"You are cordially invited to George and Martha's for an evening of fun and games." Thus read the ad copy for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, which in 1966 went farther than any previous big-studio film in its use of profanity and sexual implication. George (Richard Burton) is an alcoholic college ...more

Seething with acidic ill will and unmitigated vitriol, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? remains one of the cinema's most honest, affecting trips down the corpse-strewn path of marital dysfunction. Adapted for the screen from Edward Albee's play (deemed the "best American play of the last decade" by The New York Times), it was a scathing, uncompromising drama that on its release earned almost as much controversy as kudos. Much of this controversy emanated from the filmmakers' refusal to delete the ...more