The Pumpkin Eater (1964)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	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
	Alan Webb	...	Mr. Armitage - Jake's father
	Richard Johnson	...	Giles
	Maggie Smith	...	Philpot
	Eric Porter	...	Psychiatrist
	Cyril Luckham	...	Doctor
	Anthony Nicholls	...	Surgeon
	John Franklyn-Robbins	...	Parson
	John Junkin	...	Undertaker
	Yootha Joyce	...	Woman at Hairdressers

Storyline

Film screenwriter Jake Armitage and his wife Jo Armitage live in London with six of Jo's eight children, with the two eldest boys at boarding school. The children are spread over Jo's three marriages, with only the youngest being Jake's biological child, although he treats them all as his own. Jo left her second husband Giles after meeting Giles' friend Jake, the two who were immediately attracted to each other. Their upper middle class life is much different than 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, she only confronting him with her suspicions whenever evidence presents itself. And Jo's psychiatrist believes that Jo 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... Written by Huggo  

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