A Taste of Honey
1961 · TMDB 7.1
Directed by Tony Richardson
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.
Why it matters
Tony Richardson's adaptation of Shelagh Delaney's play follows Jo, a working-class teenager in Salford, who navigates a pregnancy and an unlikely friendship with a gay art student. Its raw, improvised feel and refusal to moralise make it a precursor to the British New Wave's hone...
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Released
- 1961-10-01
- Studio
- Woodfall Film Productions
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 7.1
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