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A Taste of Honey

We don’t ask for life. We have it thrust upon us.

1961 1h 40m ★ 7.1 (118 votes) Released

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.

Crew: Shelagh Delaney (Screenplay) · Tony Richardson (Director) · Tony Richardson (Screenplay)

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

Veronica Howard

Gladys

Moira Kaye

Doris

Keywords

friendshipsingle parentparent child relationshipbased on play or musicalfamily relationshipscoming of ageinterracial relationshipworking classsingle motherteenage pregnancy

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