The Pumpkin Eater
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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.
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Maggie Smith
Philpot
Anthony Nicholls
Surgeon
Richard Johnson
Giles
Gerald Sim
Man at Party
Phoebe Nicholls
Younger Elizabeth
Peter Finch
Jack Armitage
Cedric Hardwicke
Mr. James - Jo's father
Elizabeth Dear
Older Elizabeth
Gregory Phillips
Older Pete
John Junkin
Undertaker
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