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Taste of Honey  (1961)
We don’t ask for life. We have it thrust upon us.


7.0|1 Oct, 1961|100 min
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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

English 


Budget$153,814
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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
Rita Tushingham
Jo
Murray Melvin
Murray Melvin
Geoffrey Ingham
Paul Danquah
Paul Danquah
Jimmy
Dora Bryan
Dora Bryan
Helen
Robert Stephens
Robert Stephens
Peter Smith
Michael Bilton
Michael Bilton
Landlord
Eunice Black
Schoolteacher
David Boliver
Bert
Margo Cunningham
Landlady
Rosalie Williams
Rosalie Williams
Nurse
Veronica Howard
Gladys
Moira Kaye
Doris

Crews

Shelagh Delaney
Shelagh Delaney
Screenplay
Tony Richardson
Tony Richardson
Producer
Tony Richardson
Tony Richardson
Director
Shelagh Delaney
Shelagh Delaney
Original Story
Tony Richardson
Tony Richardson
Screenplay
Walter Lassally
Walter Lassally
Director of Photography
Ralph W. Brinton
Art Direction
Roy Millichip
Unit Manager
Peter Yates
Peter Yates
Assistant Director
Antony Gibbs
Editor
George Frost
Makeup Artist
Leigh Aman
Production Supervisor
John Addison
John Addison
Original Music Composer
Bill Griffiths
Hairstylist
Barbara Gillett
Wardrobe Master
Tom Buchanan
Boom Operator
Ray Hearne
Still Photographer
Desmond Davis
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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