Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
When Nick (George Segal) and his wife Honey (Sandy Dennis) arrive at George (Richard Burton) and Martha's (Elizabeth Taylor) for a nightcap, the younger couple's arrival prompts a barrage of marital angst and verbal tirades. George and Martha talk about their son, who has been killed in a car accident—except he isn't real. Martha and George were never able to conceive and filled the void with stories of a fake boy; George declared that he "killed" their son because Martha violated the mutually agreed-upon rule that nobody else was to know of his "existence."
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