A Taste of Honey

A Taste of Honey

1961
1h 40m
7.0

7.0/10

111 votes • View on IMDb
Drama

"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.

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Status: Released

Budget: $153,814

Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Companies
Woodfall Film Productions
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Spoken Languages
English

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

Quick Facts

Release Date October 1, 1961
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt0055506

Cast

Rita Tushingham
Rita Tushingham

Jo

Murray Melvin
Murray Melvin

Geoffrey Ingham

Paul Danquah
Paul Danquah

Jimmy

Dora Bryan
Dora Bryan

Helen

Robert Stephens
Robert Stephens

Peter Smith

Michael Bilton
Michael Bilton

Landlord

Eunice Black
Eunice Black

Schoolteacher

David Boliver
David Boliver

Bert

Margo Cunningham
Margo Cunningham

Landlady

Rosalie Williams
Rosalie Williams

Nurse

Veronica Howard
Veronica Howard

Gladys

Moira Kaye
Moira Kaye

Doris

Key Crew

Shelagh Delaney
Screenplay
Tony Richardson
Producer
Tony Richardson
Director
Tony Richardson
Screenplay