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A Taste of Honey

We don’t ask for life. We have it thrust upon us.

1961 · 1h 40m · Not Rated Drama
Directed by Tony Richardson

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Overview

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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89%
Tomatometer
Fresh

[A Taste of Honey] has an earthy gusto and sincerity that lift its somewhat downbeat theme and drab surroundings.

Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten

A perfect example of how the 'New British Cinema' of the late '50s and early '60s has dated and become almost unwatchable.

Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh

Freed from the constricting confines of the stage, the shining honesty, the trials, the disenchantment of the drama's low-born Lancashire principals have become all the more striking and true.

A.H. Weiler, New York Times
Rotten

Tony Richardson, who directed this mess, was once quoted as saying, "The British cinema is the worst in the world," and he was in a position to know.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

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