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The Pumpkin Eater is a 1964 British drama film directed by Jack Clayton and starring Anne Bancroft and Peter Finch. [2] The film was adapted by Harold Pinter from the 1962 novel of the same title by Penelope Mortimer .
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The Pumpkin Eater: Directed by Jack Clayton. With Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch, James Mason, Janine Gray. Beautiful Mother of five Jo leaves the banality of her marriage to second husband Giles to wed her passionate screenwriter lover, Jake Armitage.
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- Drama
- Jack Clayton
- 1964-11-09
Screenplay. Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatible, they are slowly torn apart.
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Summaries. Beautiful Mother of five Jo leaves the banality of her marriage to second husband Giles to wed her passionate screenwriter lover, Jake Armitage. As suspicions of Husband Jake's philandering grows, Jo's sanity spirals.
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Jack Clayton’s The Pumpkin Eater, from a Harold Pinter screenplay of Penelope Mortimer’s novel, is an unusually and fascinatingly complex portrait of a well-off woman’s bankrupt life suffocated by her role as a mother, wife and daughter. Anne Bancroft is brilliant as Jo, mother to numerous children and onto her third marriage and fast ...
