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Sandy Dennis has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1990s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
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A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity that defines their marriage.
Dir. Mike Nichols · With Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal

A trip to New York for a job interview turns into a trip to hell for a small town couple.
Dir. Arthur Hiller · With Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis, Sandy Baron

Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.
Dir. Woody Allen · With Gena Rowlands, Mia Farrow, Ian Holm

Michael is a young boy living in a typical 1950s suburbanite home... except for his bizarre and horrific nightmares, and continued unease around his parents. Young Michael begins to suspect his parents are cooking more than just hamburgers on the grill outside, but has trouble explaining his fears to his new-found friend Sheila, or the school's social worker.
Dir. Bob Balaban · With Randy Quaid, Mary Beth Hurt, Sandy Dennis

Two brothers cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent, antisocial and unable to appreciate or enjoy the good things which his brother desperately tries to point out to him.
Dir. Sean Penn · With David Morse, Viggo Mortensen, Valeria Golino
A bullied unpopular high school student named Hoax finds an ad for 976-EVIL, a number that provides daily 'horrorscopes'. But when he calls the number he gains demonic powers, which he uses to seek vengeance against those who bullied him.
Dir. Robert Englund · With Stephen Geoffreys, Patrick O'Bryan, Sandy Dennis
A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random citizens who claim that 'God told them to'.
Dir. Larry Cohen · With Tony Lo Bianco, Deborah Raffin, Sandy Dennis