The Pumpkin Eater
- Year:
- 1964
- 118 min
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What are you doing?
What are you doing?
- Nothing.
- I thought you were going shopping.
It's late. I have to go.
- How are you feeling?
- All right.
Look, I have to go to this dinner.
I'm sorry.
All right.
get over this period of your life?
Because I find it very depressing.
All right.
Daddy, I want to be
the signaI-box man.
Darling...
Yeah, all right.
This is Jake Armitage. My wife, Jo.
- Hello.
- Hello. How do you do?
- Daddy, Daddy!
- Sit down over there.
Oh! Excuse me.
- Who's he, Mummy?
- A friend of Daddy's.
- Why did you put that on the line?
- I'm joining it to the dieseI.
This is a non-stop express.
You shouldn't do that.
- What do you think of them?
- Marvellous.
Here you are.
- Do you like my car?
- Is this your car?
Yes.
- Where did you learn how to sew?
- I...
You know in the car, on the way here,
I said to you, " Mummy... "
Why isn't there a front to it, then?
- Well, it's not quite finished.
- I see.
- Give it back!
- Really, you two boys!
Jack, will you stop breaking down
the partitions!
- Tea?
- I'll help you.
What's that?
That? The windmill.
Well, where's the... thing?
Oh. I don't know.
- Does anybody live there?
- No, I don't think so.
Why on earth
do you want to marry my son?
- Why not?
- It's incomprehensible.
He'd be an impossible husband.
- Just a minute, I...
- No, I assure you. He's got no money.
He's bone-lazy, he drinks too much.
- Oh, he's quite useless.
- Thank you.
He's going to be
a very successfuI writer.
Do you think so?
What do the children say?
We haven't actually
discussed it with them.
Do you like children?
Of course, I do. Yes.
Have you ever actually known any?
Do you realise what
you' re saddling yourself with?
- Yes, yes.
- A zoo.
A children's zoo. And their keeper.
Are you reconciled to keeping
a zoo and its keeper?
- Yes, of course. I mean, yes.
- Are you fit?
You know my daughter's record,
I suppose.
Yes, I do.
I want to marry her.
Then you' re a fooI.
The least I can do is to give you
a start. Do you think that's fair?
- Fair?
- You' re a fooI but I'll give you a start.
- Do you think that's fair?
- Yes, very fair.
Right. The first thing we must do
is shed the load.
- Far too many children.
- What do you mean?
I suggest we send the eldest two
to boarding schooI.
- No. That's ridiculous.
- The burden on Jake is ridiculous.
I don't want them
to go away to schooI.
- They'd love it.
- They wouldn't.
I'd love it. Jake'd love it. They can
stay with us during the holidays.
- We don't we just give them away
- Only the first two. There are others.
I won't have you trailing home with
six more children in five years' time
and another messed-up marriage
on your hands.
Don't crush this poor boy
before he starts.
He'll have to work
We can't afford to send them
away to schooI.
Well, I'm paying.
Oh! Thank you very much.
I've also bought you a fairly good
lease on a London house.
It's quite reasonable.
It's old, but it should
suit you very well.
It'll clean me out, but you may as well
have the money now as when I die.
Oh, Mummy!
Do you like it?
Yes! It's super!
Look, Mummy,
they' re here before us!
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
Yes, isn't it!
Yes, isn't it!
Look, Mummy,
they' re here before us!
I think it's going to be wonderfuI
with all of us here.
What do you think of it, Elizabeth?
- It's gorgeous, Mummy.
- Yes, it is quite gorgeous.
- What do you think of it, Dinah?
- I think it's absolutely lovely.
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