A Taste of Honey
We don’t ask for life. We have it thrust upon us.
Jo is a neglected 16-year-old girl whose promiscuous mother marries a dandy. Jo gets pregnant after a tryst with a black cook, who leaves her over his impending responsibilities of fatherhood, and she only finds support in a gay male friend.
- 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, depressing
- Director: Tony Richardson
- Cast: Rita Tushingham, Murray Melvin, Paul Danquah, Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens, Michael Bilton