The Pumpkin Eater (1964)Synopsis:
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. They both state that they love the other, but neither really seems to like the other much. As Jake and Jo prepare to move back to the English countryside in a new house within sight of Jo's old barn, both Jo and Jake come to their own unspoken individual conclusions of whether their marriage can withstand these strains, and if so what type of marriage it is destined to be.
Resource Links:
|
Reviews & Analyses: The Pumpkin EaterTell the world what you think about The Pumpkin Eater. Post a Review / Analysis!
Post a Review / Analysis
Earn QUA for FREE by contributing to MovieQUA! Login required. Reviews / Analyses cannot be changed once submitted - please post carefully! No URLs!
|
Latest QuestionsBe the first to share a The Pumpkin Eater question!
Post Question
Earn QUA for FREE by contributing to MovieQUA! Login required. Questions cannot be changed once submitted - please post carefully! No URLs!
|
When troubled war veteran Jerry Burton and his sister Joanna relocate to the quiet little village of Lymstock in orde...
|
The Greek army is about to set sail to a great battle, but the winds refuse to blow. Their leader, King Agamemnon, se...
|
Civilization has been destroyed by war and pollution, but the survivors have built the last city of Ecoban. As most n...
|
Hannah is a recent college graduate interning at a Chicago production company. She is crushing on two writers at work...
|