The Pumpkin Eater

The study of a marriage. Jo has five children and husband number two when she meets writer Jake Armitage. She leaves this husband to marry Jake, and his career takes off. A few years and at least one child later, Jo is deeply depressed, breaking down in the middle of Harrods. After psychiatric care and the prospect of a new house in the country, she gets better; then, she is pregnant again, and this time Jake objects. Jo consents to an abortion and sterilization in the belief it will make her marriage happy again, but afterwards she learns ugly truths about Jake.

Written by allbestmovies

Cast

Anne Bancroft

Peter Finch

James Mason

Cedric Hardwicke

Rosalind Atkinson

Maggie Smith

Eric Porter

Richard Johnson

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