I just finished watching the movie "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (based on the Edward Albee play). Although its caustic, cruel, witty dark humor is not for everyone, I was pretty much blown away by it. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are extremely good in their roles of drunk, middle-aged harridan and her smart, ineffectual, yet increasingly boisterous semi-failed academic husband as they go after each other all night long in the company of a handsome young new assistant professor in the math or biology (controversy exists here) department and his "mousy" wife.
The dialogue was intelligent and surprisingly raw at times, with quite a bit of swearing. I particularly enjoyed Richard Burton's lines - e.g. "You bet your historical inevitability" and "Will you show her where we keep the ... euphemism?" and "You disgust me on principle and you're a smug son of a bitch personally but I'm trying to give you a survival kit."
Definitely worth seeing, if you can stomach this level of intensity.
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