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The Pumpkin Eater is a British film of genre Drama directed by Jack Clayton with Anne Bancroft

The Pumpkin Eater (1964)

The Pumpkin Eater
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Length 1h58
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Genres Drama
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The Pumpkin Eater is a 1964 British drama film starring Anne Bancroft as an unusually fertile woman and Peter Finch as her philandering husband.
The film was adapted by Harold Pinter from the 1962 novel of the same name by Penelope Mortimer, and was directed by Jack Clayton. The title is a reference to the nursery rhyme Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater.

Synopsis

The story revolves around Jo Armitage (Bancroft), a woman with an ambiguous number of children from three marriages, who becomes negative and withdrawn after discovering that her third (and current) husband, Jake (Finch), has been unfaithful to her. After a series of loosely related events in which Jake's infidelity is balanced by his reliability as a breadwinner and a father, Jo and Jake take a first tentative step toward reconciliation.

Actors

Anne Bancroft

(Jo Armitage)
Peter Finch

(Jake Armitage)
James Mason

(Bob Conway)
Cedric Hardwicke

(Mr. James - Jo's father)
Alan Webb

(Mr. Armitage - Jake's father)
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