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Release Date: 1964

Cast: John Junkin, Janine Gray, Anthony Nicholls, Alan Webb, Cyril Luckham, Maggie Smith, Rosalind Atkinson, Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Johnson, Anne Bancroft, John Franklyn-Robbins, Eric Porter ...MORE

Cast: John Junkin, Janine Gray, Anthony Nicholls, Alan Webb, Cyril Luckham, Maggie Smith, Rosalind Atkinson, Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Johnson, Anne Bancroft, John Franklyn-Robbins, Eric Porter, Yootha Joyce, Gerald Sim, James Mason, Peter Finch ...LESS

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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 story revolves around Jo Armitage (Bancroft), a woman with an ambiguous amount children from three marriages, who becomes negative and withdrawn after discovering that her third (and current) husband, Jake (Finch), has been unfaithful to her.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... MORE

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 story revolves around Jo Armitage (Bancroft), a woman with an ambiguous amount children from three marriages, who becomes negative and withdrawn after discovering that her third (and current) husband, Jake (Finch), has been unfaithful to her.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. Most of the story is based on two issues: Jo's predilection for childbearing and Jake's extramarital affairs. The question of Jo's fertility is first broached by her psychiatrist. He suggests that she may feel uncomfortable with the messiness or vulgarity of sex, and that she may be using childbirth to justify it to herself. This does not prevent her from becoming pregnant again, but she follows suggestions by Jake and her doctor that she have an abortion and be sterilised, and LESS