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A Taste of Honey (1961)
We don’t ask for life. We have it thrust upon us.
100 minDrama
TMDb7.1/10116 votes
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.
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Tony Richardson
Cast
Rita Tushingham
Jo
Murray Melvin
Geoffrey Ingham
Paul Danquah
Jimmy
Dora Bryan
Helen
Robert Stephens
Peter Smith
Michael Bilton
Landlord
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Eunice Black
Schoolteacher
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David Boliver
Bert
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Margo Cunningham
Landlady
Rosalie Williams
Nurse
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Veronica Howard
Gladys
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Moira Kaye
Doris
Peter Sallis
Man (uncredited)
Keywords
Plot:friendshipsingle parentparent child relationshipbased on play or musicalfamily relationshipscoming of ageinterracial relationshipworking classsingle motherteenage pregnancykitchen sink realismfree cinemabritish new waveindependent filmdepressing
