A Taste of Honey
1961 · 1h 40m · Drama · United Kingdom · Rated 12 (GB)
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.
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Tony Richardson6.7Smart score
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based on play or musicalbritish new wavecoming of agedepressingfamily relationshipsfree cinemafriendshipindependent filminterracial relationshipkitchen sink realismparent child relationshipsingle mothersingle parentteenage pregnancyworking class
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