

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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $153.8K
- Box office
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- Language
- English
- friendship
- single parent
- parent child relationship
- based on play or musical
- family relationships
- coming of age
- interracial relationship
- working class
- single mother
- teenage pregnancy
- kitchen sink realism
- free cinema
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United Kingdom
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical (limited)30 Apr 1962
United KingdomGB
- Premiere12London14 Sept 1961
- Theatrical121 Oct 1961
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A Taste of Honey was released on 1 October 1961.
Audience reviews
1- P6/10
Peter McGinn
11/9/2022
I guess this movie holds a strong place in cinematic history. It may have been the first movie where all the scenes, indoors and out, were filmed on location. And it was certainly bold with plot details such as having a gay main character and an interracial relationship for the main character. Mostly I liked A Taste of Honey just fine. The main character Jo had spunk and a quick tongue, neither of them are a bad t…
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