The pumpkin eater
The pumpkin eater [videorecording] /
Columbia Pictures ; Royal Films International presents a Romulus-Jack Clayton production ; screenplay by Harold Pinter ; produced by James Woolf ; directed by Jack Clayton.
- Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c2010.
- 1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Based on the novel by Penelope Mortimer. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1964.
Director of photography, Oswald Morris ; editor, James Clark ; music, Georges Delerue. Director of photography, Oswald Morris ; editor, James Clark ; music, Georges Delerue.
Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch, James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Johnson, Eric Porter.
Anne Bancroft's cathartic lead performance anchors The Pumpkin Eater, Harold Pinter's harrowing, elliptical tale of marital dissatisfaction. Though much of the film concerns her character's fitful bouts with depression, Bancroft charges every moment she's onscreen, employing an array of subtle gestures and facial expressions to convey what her repressed character cannot. Pinter and director Jack Clayton never resort to facile satire or pat assignations of blame; instead, the film charts the slow, irreversible manner in which a chasm can grow between husband and wife. As Bancroft's callous husband, Peter Finch perfectly conveys the subtle, damaging hypocrisies that eventually break his wife's spirit. James Mason has a particularly memorable supporting role as a vitriolic, passive-aggressive acquaintance of the couple.
Rating: Not rated.
DVD.
043396360013
36001 Columbia Pictures
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Feature films.
Based on the novel by Penelope Mortimer. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1964.
Director of photography, Oswald Morris ; editor, James Clark ; music, Georges Delerue. Director of photography, Oswald Morris ; editor, James Clark ; music, Georges Delerue.
Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch, James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Johnson, Eric Porter.
Anne Bancroft's cathartic lead performance anchors The Pumpkin Eater, Harold Pinter's harrowing, elliptical tale of marital dissatisfaction. Though much of the film concerns her character's fitful bouts with depression, Bancroft charges every moment she's onscreen, employing an array of subtle gestures and facial expressions to convey what her repressed character cannot. Pinter and director Jack Clayton never resort to facile satire or pat assignations of blame; instead, the film charts the slow, irreversible manner in which a chasm can grow between husband and wife. As Bancroft's callous husband, Peter Finch perfectly conveys the subtle, damaging hypocrisies that eventually break his wife's spirit. James Mason has a particularly memorable supporting role as a vitriolic, passive-aggressive acquaintance of the couple.
Rating: Not rated.
DVD.
043396360013
36001 Columbia Pictures
Adultery--Drama.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Housewives--Drama.
Marriage--Drama.
Middle age--Psychological aspects--Drama.
Middle-aged persons--Sexual behavior--Drama.
Midlife crisis--Drama.
Feature films.