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A Taste of Honey
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.
1961 · Directed by Tony Richardson · 100 min · Drama · 10 frames
Tagline
We don’t ask for life. We have it thrust upon us.
Crew
- Screenplay: Shelagh Delaney, Tony Richardson
- Cinematography: Walter Lassally
- Edited by: Antony Gibbs
- Music: John Addison
- Produced by: Tony Richardson
Cast
- Rita Tushingham as Jo
- Murray Melvin as Geoffrey Ingham
- Paul Danquah as Jimmy
- Dora Bryan as Helen
- Robert Stephens as Peter Smith
- Michael Bilton as Landlord
- Eunice Black as Schoolteacher
- David Boliver as Bert
- Margo Cunningham as Landlady
- Rosalie Williams as Nurse
Production
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Studios: Woodfall Film Productions
- Budget: $153,814
- Themes: friendship, single parent, parent child relationship, based on play or musical, family relationships, coming of age, interracial relationship, working class, single mother, teenage pregnancy
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