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A Taste of Honey (film)
1962
A Taste of Honey is a 1961 British New Wave drama film directed by Tony Richardson and starring Rita Tushingham, Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens and Murray Melvin. [6] It is an adaptation of the 1958 play of the same name by Shelagh Delaney. Delaney wrote the screenplay with Richardson, who had directed the original Broadway production of the play ...
A Taste of Honey: Directed by Tony Richardson. With Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens, Rita Tushingham, Murray Melvin. A pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support.
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- Drama
- Tony Richardson
- 1962-04-30
A Taste of Honey, British film, released in 1961, that is often cited as a classic example of the socially conscious and realistic Angry Young Man dramas that appeared in Britain in the post- World War II era. The story centres on Jo (played by Rita Tushingham ), a demure and awkward teenager driven out of her home by her promiscuous and ...
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In this domestic drama, British teen Jo (Rita Tushingham) struggles to find love in her bleak day-to-day life, which is dominated by her alcoholic mother, Helen (Dora Bryan). When Jo has a brief ...
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- Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ+
- Tony Richardson
Jo is an awkward, shy 17-year-old girl living with her promiscuous alcoholic mother, Helen. Desperately longing to simply be loved, when her mother's latest "romance" drives Jo out of their apartment, she spends the night with a black sailor on a brief shore leave. But when Jo's mother abandons her to move in with her latest lover, Jo finds a ...
The revolutionary British New Wave films of the early 1960s were celebrated for their uncompromising depictions of working-class lives and relations between the sexes. Directed by Tony Richardson, a leading light of that movement, and based on one of the most controversial plays of its time, A Taste of Honey features Rita Tushingham in her star-making debut role as a disaffected teenager ...
A Taste of Honey is the first play by the British dramatist Shelagh Delaney, written when she was 19.It was adapted into an award-winning film of the same title in 1961.. Set in Salford in North West England, it tells the story of Jo, a working class schoolgirl, and her mother, Helen, who is presented as tarty, foul mouthed and promiscuous.
