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starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Caine, Susannah York, Margaret Leighton, John Standingdirected by: Brian G. Hutton
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302862829
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302862825
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: May 16, 2000
Running Time: 110 minutes
Sales Rank: 11694
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: January 21, 1972
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Amazon.com:
The quintessence of '70s dreck, albeit with one and a half feet stuck in the '60s. Swinging London was already a faded memory in 1972 (and the spectacle of Dame Margaret Leighton in a see-through blouse did nothing to inspire nostalgia for it). More to the point, the consider-the-possibilities algebra of the title and the central casting of Liz Taylor as Zee, a game-playing virago of a wife, suggest a wishful revamp of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), without a Richard Burton to supply wit, grace, and feeling. Even Michael Caine, who plays Zee's feckless architect husband, seems to be coasting on rueful memories of Alfie (1965).
Out of bored habit more than passion, Caine erotically targets Susannah York, a vague country wife who may or may not be a widow. They begin an affair. Zee cottons on right away and does her utmost to play both ends against her full-figure-gal middle. Taylor's bitch-queen act lends a certain verve; she barges about the screen in a wardrobe of multicolored, tent-like horrors that suggest, oh, Genghis Khan in Arabia. It's a measure of the film's muddled sense of itself that Zee's early description of her rival--'a soulful slob [who's] always a little out of breath and sees beauty in everything'--is dead-on about the character and the normally lively Susannah York's performance.
Zee (like Virginia Woolf's Martha) is childless, and Edna O'Brien's script underscores how often the three principals call one another 'baby.' We won't tip the surprise-twist climax, but the ending is the nadir of '70s pseudo-sophistication, mindless technique mongering, and cluelessness masquerading as 'adult' ambiguity. Not one freeze frame but a dozen... overlapped... with zooms in and out, yet. Turn on the lava lamps, get out the throw cushions, zap the microwave popcorn--this is a definitive trash wallow. --Richard T. Jameson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Acting like she's in VIRGINA WOOLF 2, Taylor turns up the dail to MAXIMUM in this stupefying howl-fest!
Liz Taylor nearly kissed off her stunning WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? comeback with an almost unbroken string of howl fests -- and this is one of the best of the worst. WIldly painted and bursting out of '60s psychedelic frocks in her a-go-go gone-amok phase, Taylor plays the sadistic, horny, wealthy, foul-mouthed wife of masochistic, horny, wealthy, foul-mouthed London architect Michael Caine.
The action starts when Caine, at a party, flashes his eyes at achingly sensitive boutique ... Read More
Rating: - great fun to watch
I cannot believe that the last review was 2003. Come on all you Elizabeth Taylor fans write a review. I am in the process of watching all of E.T. (she likes to be called this today) films and enjoyed this one enormously. I found myself laughing at many times at La Liz's gestures. She was hysterical at times and I do mean that in a good way. A roll of the eyes,a deepening of her voice an Irish accent was a great show of what she can do. Some people are born into this world to be an actress and she ... Read More
Rating: - Taylor shines in comic role!
Set in the swinging London scene of the early 1970's, the last gasp of the hippie era clashes with the chic international jet set. The result is this triangular jewel of a movie. Robert Blakeley (Michael Cain) is married to the glamorous, manic and barren Zee (Elizabeth Taylor). Intricate games and a few threads of love hold the marriage together. Into the volatile mix comes Stella, a younger woman who is on the edge and ready for a little shove.
Michael Caine and Susannah York are great actors ... Read More
Rating:  - Elizabeth Taylor's show all the way
"X, Y And Zee" has often been accused of being a rerun of Elizabeth Taylor's Oscar winning film "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf", however while they both have a fiery leading female character the plots and characters overall are totally different. Like her or deplore her, Zee Blakeley played by Miss Taylor really did offer Elizabeth her best role in years. It shows equal elements of comedy, melodrama, tragedy and sympathy that Elizabeth handles very well.
The film is an unmistakeable icon of the ... Read More
Rating: - Hysterically Camp Liz Taylor at her Best
This movie is campy fun from beginning to end.
Michael and Liz are trapped in a sadistic love-hate marriage until one day they set off for a typical party of the 'Swinging London Scene', where Michael sees and falls for the ever-so-sensitive Susannah York...pale,blonde,widowed single mother of twins. Liz will have none of it & with the help of her gay pal tries every trick in the book to win him back...suicide attempts,lesbian seduction...she'll stop at nothing.
Liz is at her absolute ... Read More
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