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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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A Taste of Honey (1961) Movie Info Synopsis 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 ...
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Jo is a neglected 16-year-old girl whose promiscuous mother marries a dandy. Jo gets pregnant after a tryst with a black cook, who leaves her over his impending responsibilities of fatherhood, and she only finds support in a gay male friend. Tony Richardson. Director, Screenplay.
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 ...
