A Taste of Honey

Year: 1961

Country: UK

Tagline: The prize winning comedy-drama of a young girl's passionate love for life!...

Plot: Black and white, gay and straight, mothers and daughters, class, and coming of age. Jo is working class, in her teens, living with her drunk and libidinous mother in northern England. When mom marries impulsively, Jo is out on the streets; she and Geoffrey, a gay co worker who's adrift himself, find a room together. Then Jo finds herself pregnant after a one night stand with Jimmy, a Black sailor. Geoffrey takes over the preparations for the baby's birth, and becomes, in effect, the child's father. The three of them seem to have things sorted out when Jo's mother reappears on the scene, assertive and domineering. Which "family" will emerge?Abandoned by her sailor boyfriend and her man-hungry mother (Dora Bryan), pregnant Jo (Rita Tushingham) befriends a kind-hearted gay man (Murray Melvin), and gradually becomes a woman.

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