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.
- Year: 1961
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Woodfall Film Productions
- Keyword: 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, indie film, depressing
- Director: Tony Richardson
- Cast: Rita Tushingham, Murray Melvin, Paul Danquah, Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens, Michael Bilton