

“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.

Rita Tushingham
Jo
Lead
Murray Melvin
Geoffrey Ingham

Paul Danquah
Jimmy

Dora Bryan
Helen

Robert Stephens
Peter Smith

Michael Bilton
Landlord
Eunice Black
Schoolteacher
David Boliver
Bert
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Tony Richardson's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
“Every frame feels alive. A Taste of Honey is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”