A Taste of Honey
We don’t ask for life. We have it thrust upon us.
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.
- 6.9
- 1961
- Released
- 1h 40m
Rita Tushingham
Jo
Murray Melvin
Geoffrey Ingham
Dora Bryan
Helen
Robert Stephens
Peter Smith
Michael Bilton
Landlord
Eunice Black
SchoolteacherDavid Boliver
BertMargo Cunningham
Landlady
Rosalie Williams
NurseVeronica Howard
GladysMoira Kaye
Doris
Peter Sallis
Man (uncredited)
Released
en
$153,814.00
- #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
Reviews
I guess this movie holds a strong place in cinematic history. It may have been the first movie where all the scenes, indoors and out, were filmed on location. And it was certainly bold with plot details such as having a gay main character and an interracial relationship for the main character. Mostly I liked A Taste of Honey just fine. The main character Jo had spunk and a quick tongue, neither