The Pumpkin Eater
The Pumpkin Eater

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- 72/100 based on 2,708 votes
  • Released: 1964
  • Runtime: 110 mins
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  • Studio: Romulus Films
  • Genres: Drama

Screenwriter Jake Armitage (Peter Finch) and his wife Jo Armitage (Anne Bancroft) live in London with six of Jo's eight children; the two eldest boys are at boarding school The children are spread over Jo's three marriages; only the youngest is Jake's biological child, but he treats them all as his own. Jo left her second husband Giles (Richard Johnson) after meeting Giles' friend Jake; the two were immediately attracted to each other. Their upper-middle-class life is very di... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Pumpkin Eater:

Anne Bancroft
Peter Finch
James Mason
Janine Gray
Cedric Hardwicke
Rosalind Atkinson

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Screenwriter Jake Armitage (Peter Finch) and his wife Jo Armitage (Anne Bancroft) live in London with six of Jo's eight children; the two eldest boys are at boarding school The children are spread over Jo's three marriages; only the youngest is Jake's biological child, but he treats them all as his own. Jo left her second husband Giles (Richard Johnson) after meeting Giles' friend Jake; the two were immediately attracted to each other. Their upper-middle-class life is very different from Giles and Jo's; who lived in a barn in the English countryside. But Jo is ruminating about her strained marriage to Jake, with issues on both sides. Jo suspects Jake of chronic infidelity, only confronting him with her suspicions whenever evidence presents itself. And Jo's psychiatrist believes that she uses childbirth as a rationale for sex, which he believes she finds vulgar. These issues in combination have placed Jo in a fragile mental state. They both state that they love each other, but neither seems to like the other much. As they prepare to move back to the English countryside in a new house within sight of Jo's old barn, both Jo and Jake come to their own unspoken individual conclusions of whether their marriage can withstand these strains, and if so what type of marriage it is destined to be.

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Time Out - 10/10 by David ThompsonFine performances notwithstanding, the world of the Hampstead soap opera now seems so far away as to almost rate as science fiction.
New York Times - 8/10 by Bosley CrowtherIt might make for valid drama if Mr. Pinter had done a half‐way job of establishing this insecure woman on firm psychological ground.
Variety - 8/10 by Variety StaffAnne Bancroft is exceptionally good... The role may sound conventional enough, but not as played by Bancroft; she adds a depth and understanding which puts it on a higher plane.
EmanuelLevy.Com - 8/10 by Emanuel LevyA depressing but well acted marital drama, earning Anne Bancroft an Oscar nod for playing a mother of eight children married to the philandering Peter Finch.
Radio Times - 8/10 by Adrian TurnerThere's beautifully modulated direction from Jack Clayton and scriptwriter Harold Pinter's acidulent signature is all over it -- not to mention the influence of Michelangelo Antonioni.
User Review - 10/10 by Steven CThis exists in a very special and sparsely populated plane of filmmaking. Pinter scripted, Jack Clayton directed ('The Innocents') and with a superlative Anne Bancroft this little-known gem is a quintessential British film.
User Review - 10/10 by Jacob LThis is a great drama. Bancroft and Mason are first class.
User Review - 10/10 by Knox MAmong the most provocative portrayals of a woman I've ever witnessed. Clayton uses every technique in the book to reach out and touch the audience.
User Review - 10/10 by David Jwell umn just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a good movie 2 watch......its got a good cast of actors/actressess throughout this movie..............i think that anne bancroft, peter finch, james mason, eric porter, richard johnson, cedric hardwicke, rosalind atkinson, frances white, alan webb play good roles/parts thorughout this movie...........i think that anne bancroft, peter finch, eric porter, richard johnson were great throughout this movie.............i think that the director of this classics/drama movie had done a good job of directing this movie because you never know what 2 expect throughout this movie...............i think that this is a really powerful drama movie 2 watch its so really powerful movie 2 watch with a great cast throughout this movie its so powerful 2 watch
User Review - 10/10 by Christopher WI came upon this movie on late night t.v. a few years back. I really love Anne Bancroft and I think that she is overlooked as a great actress. This film is a wonderful study of a marriage in trouble and Ms. Bancroft and Peter Finch are so believable as lovers and as a married couple that I wondered why I had never even heard of the film before. Anne Bancroft is able to the convey heartbreaking loneliness that you just want to cry or help her in some way. I enjoyed this film because it kept engaged in the lives of these two characters.

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