Film · Drama
A Taste of Honey (1961)
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.
- Director
- Tony Richardson
- Writers
- Tony Richardson, Shelagh Delaney
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Release date
- October 1, 1961
Cast
Rita TushinghamJo
Murray MelvinGeoffrey Ingham
Paul DanquahJimmy
Dora BryanHelen
Robert StephensPeter Smith
Michael BiltonLandlord- Eunice BlackSchoolteacher
- David BoliverBert
- Margo CunninghamLandlady
Rosalie WilliamsNurse- Veronica HowardGladys
- Moira KayeDoris
Peter SallisMan (uncredited)
