The Pumpkin Eater
1964 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom
The study of a marriage. Jo has five children and husband number two when she meets writer Jake Armitage. She leaves this husband to marry Jake, and his career takes off. A few years and at least one child later, Jo is deeply depressed, breaking down in the middle of Harrods. After psychiatric care and the prospect of a new house in the country, she gets better; then, she is pregnant again, and this time Jake objects. Jo consents to an abortion and sterilization in the belief it will make her marriage happy again, but afterwards she learns ugly truths about Jake. She confronts him. "Why did you marry me?" and "What should we do?" become nearly unanswerable questions.
Direction Jack Clayton
Cast Anne Bancroft · Peter Finch · James Mason · Cedric Hardwicke · Rosalind Atkinson · Maggie Smith · Eric Porter · Richard Johnson
Soundtrack Georges Delerue
Screenplay Harold Pinter · Penelope Mortimer
Cinematography Oswald Morris
Original title The Pumpkin Eater
6.6
245 votes (FilmAffinity)
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