The Pumpkin Eater (1964)

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Anne Bancroft stars as a restless, twice-married British woman with six children, whose third husband is a fledgling screenwriter (Peter Finch). When success spins Finch's head around, he begins to dally with women other than his wife. Meanwhile, Bancroft is forced to stay home and play "domestic goddess", a role for which she is utterly unsuited. After suffering a nervous breakdown, Bancroft wanders the streets of London in a vain search for a sympathetic ear. She eventually comes to grips with the situation at hand--but as in most of playwright Harold Pinter's works, the characters of The Pumpkin Eater are just as unfulfilled in the last scene as they were in the first. Anne Bancroft won a Cannes Film Festival award for her performance in this film. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Starring:: Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch, (more)

Director(s):: Jack Clayton

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Synopsis of The Pumpkin Eater

Complete Cast of The Pumpkin Eater

Anne Bancroft - Jo Armitage
James Mason - Bob Conway
Richard Johnson - Giles
Rosalind Atkinson - Jo's Mother
Alan Webb - Mr. Armitage, Jake's Father
Janine Gray - Beth Conway
Frank Singuineau - King of Israel
Rupert Osborne - Pete
Gerald Sim - Man at Party
Christopher Ellis - Fergus
Sarah Nicholls - Elizabeth
Leslie Nunnerley - Waitress at Zoo

Peter Finch - Jake Armitage
Cedric Hardwicke - Mr. James, Jo's Father
Eric Porter - Psychiatrist
Frances White - Dinah
Cyril Luckham - Doctor
Yootha Joyce - Woman at Hairdresser
John Franklyn-Robbins - Parson
John Junkin - Undertaker
Maggie Smith - Philpot
Faith Kent - Nanny
Anthony Nicholls - Surgeon

Director(s):: Jack Clayton

Writer(s):: Harold Pinter

Producer(s):: James Woolf

The Pumpkin Eater Awards:

1964 - British Academy of Film and Television Arts - Best Black and White Cinematography
1964 - British Academy of Film and Television Arts - Best Foreign Actress
1964 - Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress
1964 - Hollywood Foreign Press Association - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama