A Taste of Honey (1961)
12
14/09/1961 (GB)
Drama
1h 40m
- 70% (103 votes)
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We don’t ask for life. We have it thrust upon us.
Overview
While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarries, Jo's only support becomes her friend Geoffrey, a homosexual.
- Tony RichardsonDirector, Screenplay
- Shelagh DelaneyScreenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$153,814
Keywords
- friendship
- single parent
- parent child relationship
- based on play or musical
- family relationships
- coming of age
- interracial relationship
- working class
- single mother
- teenage pregnancy
- kitchen sink realism
- free cinema
- british new wave
- independent film
- depressing
Top Billed Cast
Rita Tushingham
Jo
Murray Melvin
Geoffrey Ingham
Paul Danquah
Jimmy
Dora Bryan
Helen
Robert Stephens
Peter Smith
Michael Bilton
Landlord
Eunice Black
Schoolteacher
David Boliver
Bert
Margo Cunningham
Landlady
Rosalie Williams
Nurse
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