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A Taste of Honey

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

1961-10-01
6.971
en 100m
Drama
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.

Screenplay

Shelagh Delaney

Producer

Tony Richardson

Director

Tony Richardson

Original Story

Shelagh Delaney

Screenplay

Tony Richardson

Director of Photography

Walter Lassally

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

Status

Released

Budget

$153,814

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Companies

  • Woodfall Film Productions

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