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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.
Language
Budget$153,814
Revenue --
English
Budget$153,814
Revenue --
Keywords
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
Casts

Rita Tushingham
Jo

Murray Melvin
Geoffrey Ingham

Paul Danquah
Jimmy

Dora Bryan
Helen

Robert Stephens
Peter Smith

Michael Bilton
Landlord
Eunice Black
Schoolteacher
David Boliver
Bert
Margo Cunningham
Landlady

Rosalie Williams
Nurse
Veronica Howard
Gladys
Moira Kaye
Doris
Crews

Shelagh Delaney
Screenplay

Tony Richardson
Producer

Tony Richardson
Director

Shelagh Delaney
Original Story

Tony Richardson
Screenplay

Walter Lassally
Director of Photography
Ralph W. Brinton
Art Direction
Roy Millichip
Unit Manager

Peter Yates
Assistant Director
Antony Gibbs
Editor
George Frost
Makeup Artist
Leigh Aman
Production Supervisor

John Addison
Original Music Composer
Bill Griffiths
Hairstylist
Barbara Gillett
Wardrobe Master
Tom Buchanan
Boom Operator
Ray Hearne
Still Photographer

Desmond Davis
Camera Operator
Thomas Erley
Property Master
Charles Poulton
Sound Recordist
Roy Hyde
Sound Editor
Don Challis
Sound Editor
Michael Rabiger
First Assistant Editor
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