This Edward Albee play was directed for film by Tony Richardson and has an all-star cast headed up by Oscar winners, Katherine Hepburn, and Paul Scofield as a late middle-age couple living a "delicate balance" in their up-scale New England home.
The balance is disrupted when their best friends (Betsy Blair and Joseph Cotton) arrive to stay with them because they feel "an indescribable sense of terror" in their OWN house.
After these friends are given their married daughter's room, she (Lee Remick), returns "home" to re-take residence in her old room, announcing that she is on the verge of yet another of her several divorces. Added to this is the fact that Kate Reid (who plays Hepburn's sister) has never left the home in the first place.
The drama plays out as each of these characters try to confront their situations without knowing how to broach it except through drinking, worrying, and trying to talk it through.
The balance is disrupted when their best friends (Betsy Blair and Joseph Cotton) arrive to stay with them because they feel "an indescribable sense of terror" in their OWN house.
After these friends are given their married daughter's room, she (Lee Remick), returns "home" to re-take residence in her old room, announcing that she is on the verge of yet another of her several divorces. Added to this is the fact that Kate Reid (who plays Hepburn's sister) has never left the home in the first place.
The drama plays out as each of these characters try to confront their situations without knowing how to broach it except through drinking, worrying, and trying to talk it through.