The Pumpkin Eater
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 title by Penelope Mortimer and was directed by Jack Clayton. The title is a reference to the nursery rhyme "Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater".
Plot
The film's narrative revolves around Jo Armitage (Anne Bancroft), a woman with an ambiguous number of children from three marriages, who becomes negative and withdrawn after discovering that her third (and current) husband, Jake (Peter Finch), has been unfaithful to her.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.
More details
author | Harold Pinter |
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director | Jack Clayton |
editor | Jim Clark |
genre | drama |
keywords | discover extramarital affair morning young woman |
musicBy | Georges Delerue |
nomination | Academy Award for Best Actress |
producer | John and James Woolf |
productionCompany | Jack Clayton Romulus Films |
publisher | Columbia Pictures |