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The Pumpkin Eater

1964, Movie, NR, 118 mins

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Bancroft, in an Oscar-nominated performance, plays a twice-married mother of six. She divorces her second husband (Johnson) and takes up with Finch, a highly successful screenwriter. The two marry; it seems like a perfect marriage until Bancroft realizes her philandering husband will never buckle down to her notions of marital fidelity. She gives birth to her seventh child and suffers a nervous breakdown. This, along with an encounter with an unbalanced woman at her hairdres... read more leave a comment
Year: 1964
Rated NR

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Cast
Anne Bancroft: Jo Armitage
Peter Finch: Jake Armitage
James Mason: Bob Conway
Janine Gray: Beth Conway
Cedric Hardwicke: Mr. James, Jo's Father
Rosalind Atkinson: Mrs. James, Jo's Mother

 

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