The Pumpkin Eater 1964

A Much Married Woman Who Drifts From Husband to Husband!

6.7 / 10   37 vote(s)
Drama

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.

Release Date 1964-07-16
Runtime 1h 58m
Directors Jack Clayton, Oswald Morris
Producer James Woolf
Writers Penelope Mortimer, Harold Pinter

First rate in every respect: plot, script, B&W cinematography, editing, music… but the real icing on the cake would be the performances of Bancroft and Finch, which I suspect are the best of their careers

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