It’s not a feel-good movie because it’s an all-too-believable incarnation of Edward Albee’s play, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 
which is not a feel-good play. After you start to move again after you finish watching it, probably you’ll end up thinking that your life is better than you thought it was. George (Richard Burton) and Martha (Elizabeth Taylor) do a pretty good job of proving that hell on earth is possible.
Virginia Woolf (1966, rated “approved,” 131 minutes) is almost a non-stop exaltation of how to be mean, sad, vicious, heartbroken, desperate, delirious, murderous, inhibited, ignorant, ambitious, empty, and longing, more or less all at the same time.
George and Martha, an aging couple on a rundown college campus, stage their terrible show for the benefit of a young professor, Nick (George Segal), and his young wife, Honey (Sandy Dennis), in the wee hours of a morning when each of them has something better to do, but isn’t doing it.
None of them make you think of the Cleaver family.
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