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.

Director: Tony Richardson

Cast

Rita Tushingham

Jo

Murray Melvin

Geoffrey Ingham

Paul Danquah

Jimmy

Dora Bryan

Helen

Robert Stephens

Peter Smith

Michael Bilton

Landlord

E

Eunice Black

Schoolteacher

D

David Boliver

Bert