A Taste of Honey (1961)

Cast

Robert Stephens
as Peter Smith

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Genres & Description

Drama

7.6 / 10

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?

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Bon Summers

Films - @Wednesday, November 7, 2018 2:45 AM

for real

British movies are the best. - @Sunday, September 16, 2018 8:16 PM

conan howard

I remember sitting next to Rita Tushingham in a pub in Polperro in Cornwall back in the early 70s and feeling all strange as a 20 year old boy - @Monday, August 13, 2018 6:08 PM

Juka Zarich

God!! She looks like Natalie Merchant... - @Sunday, April 22, 2018 4:58 PM

Andrew Williams

A ground breaking film. I've seen it several times. - @Saturday, March 31, 2018 3:56 PM

ravenhill of darkmere1968

this is when this country was great, a bygone era which will never come back. - @Saturday, January 13, 2018 11:01 PM

Terry Osborne

Kitchen Sink Drama - @Sunday, November 19, 2017 12:33 PM

GarethWonfor

pretty grim... - @Saturday, April 22, 2017 11:12 PM

paul hoye

the irish are not fools, quite racist, but typical of england in those times - @Thursday, February 2, 2017 11:31 PM

Ganbare

It's a British thing, so keep your neb out. - @Wednesday, August 24, 2016 7:04 AM

Meg Moses

this is how it was,, in the sixtees - @Monday, February 1, 2016 6:27 PM

The Disingenuous Gamer

Morrissey Anyone? - @Saturday, October 31, 2015 4:30 AM

Cynthia Hawkins

The gritty, black and white "Kitchen Table" films coming out of Britain in the 1960's spoke loud and clear about the changes that were happening in society and the world. I loved Taste of Honey, also Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, This Sporting Life. Americans got to see actors like Alan Bates, Julie Christie, Rachel Roberts, Albert Finney, Richard Harris, Rita Tushigham, a young, powerful Oliver Reed, Tom Courtenay. What a gift, these. I prefer not to dwell on the sociological heavy stuff - just watch and dig the movie.Leave the film analysis for later - fascinating and important as that may be!! - @Wednesday, June 17, 2015 1:45 PM

Rosalind Mercer

The days before legal abortion .Thank goodness for David Steele! - @Wednesday, July 23, 2014 8:21 PM

mrmynx

"The Colours wrong"?? I thought all babies in these movies were gray?...:) - @Saturday, July 19, 2014 8:42 PM

allyc1965

Things were miserable in the 60's but that's because everything was still in black and white. With the advent of colour in the early 70's the suicide rates in the UK plummeted. - @Friday, July 4, 2014 11:25 PM

bascet1

Morrissey's favourite film. Salford has always been bleak and hard!! It's just rougher nowadays!!! - @Sunday, June 1, 2014 9:27 PM

Greig Roselli

Jo (Rita Tushingham) and Geoffrey (Murray Melvin) make a splendid queer couple. #splenax - @Wednesday, May 28, 2014 3:13 AM

mr Pinks

old meand - @Wednesday, April 30, 2014 12:24 AM

Susie196921

This movie is one of my favorites and one of the best movies made in the 1960's! - @Monday, February 10, 2014 7:09 AM

Terry Grigg

A great social realist film, the likes of which unfortunately are no longer made. I love the anti-natalist edge... 'She shouldn't be allowed. Think of the harm she does having children.' 'A bit of love, a bit of lust and there you are. We don't ask for life, we have it thrust upon us.' 'I'll bash its brains out. I'll kill it. I don't want this baby Geoff, I don't want to be a mother, I don't want to be a woman.' - @Tuesday, November 12, 2013 3:14 PM

RoLorenz

I don't even have words to say how much I love this movie! - @Wednesday, November 6, 2013 4:28 AM

Danny Vaulter

I saw this on a TV "late Show' in Iowa when I was 13 just a year or two after it was made. It was the first and for many many years the only positive presentation of a homosexual that I would see. I have the deepest respect and admiration for this film. - @Friday, September 27, 2013 12:23 AM

Andrewsmate

Then why do some of the worlds most beautiful come from the UK if that's true, and the most successful model - Kate Moss? A dumb thing to write. - @Saturday, June 22, 2013 7:17 AM

Andrewsmate

That's a disgusting, ignorant and racist comment. This film tackled many subjects - homosexulaity, interracial relationships, teenage pregnancy, single parenting and if you didn't see the questions asked within this film, then you missed the point. - @Saturday, June 22, 2013 7:14 AM

Hugh Jarse

that is rich coming from a yank talking about ugly people , your country is run by a jungle bunny , he is not ugly is he ? along with bush and reagan.. fuck me - @Thursday, April 4, 2013 6:40 AM

James Tomlinson

Brilliant Scene. Brilliant Film. Brilliant Story. - @Sunday, February 24, 2013 1:43 AM

Mark Hughes

THE BEST BRITISH BRITISH FILM BY A MILE! Perfect.....Dora Bryan....all the way and Murray Melvin is sublime as is Tushingham... - @Saturday, January 12, 2013 5:19 AM

weeeeoooow

Me too, so real, gritty and depressing about two outsiders finding friendship and support....such a great film and script : ) - @Sunday, November 25, 2012 11:25 AM

North camsabout dewood

I remember watching them shoot this scene when I was about 18yrs old ,It was filmed in St Marys Church Yard .just by Stockport Market Hall, I was a traniee press photographer, working for the Stockport Press Agency. at the time They then went on to Film in Blackpool. most of the filming was done with portable hand held cameras, one of the first films units to move out of London to film on location in the north.I still have a BFI copy on DVD I am 69 now. - @Wednesday, October 17, 2012 3:40 PM

GwladForgan

her northern accent in really bad, she keeps reverting in and out of queens english! lol, good film though - @Sunday, September 2, 2012 12:40 PM

JoshPersonal

Great, if sad, movie - @Tuesday, August 21, 2012 5:11 PM

AttractiveCo

You know when you just happen upon a film as a young child and it just stays with you. It is one of my all-time favourites. - @Sunday, April 15, 2012 11:31 PM

asa

Murray Melvin - awesome old school actor - @Tuesday, January 17, 2012 3:43 AM

David Vardeman

@feverpitch96 So sorry to learn this. - @Friday, December 16, 2011 1:07 AM

David Vardeman

A great movie of a great play. One of the best movies of the 60s. - @Friday, December 16, 2011 1:06 AM

John Connolly

@Kohl423 Nothing to do with race???? She gets pregnant by a nigerian man who then abandons her to be a single mother! Couldn't be more relevant to race if it tried. Utterly brilliant - @Tuesday, November 22, 2011 11:06 AM

Adrian Blair

Shelagh Delaney R.I.P. - @Monday, November 21, 2011 11:36 PM

feverpitch96

Rest in peace, Shelagh Delaney, passed away this weekend aged 72. x - @Monday, November 21, 2011 1:20 PM

Pipkin Hopkins

@bensimps123 ha ha ha promises promises, I'm not your flavour but I'll give you 12 out of 10 for the perverse humour of your answer :D ; ) - @Tuesday, October 4, 2011 4:52 PM

Pipkin Hopkins

@bensimps123 or else ??? - @Monday, October 3, 2011 3:34 PM

bensimps123

@psychodamned dont you ever say fuck morrissey again ....got it ! - @Wednesday, September 28, 2011 7:05 PM

bensimps123

why didnt geoff stay :( - @Wednesday, September 28, 2011 7:04 PM

Kohl423

A film from my youthful memories when the UK and France for example made such earthy, grainy films. At the time they didn't mean quite as much but now they remind me of lost youth and a lost world that was once England. Very Black & White in those days (nothing to do with race). - @Friday, August 5, 2011 9:06 PM

Andrew Dexter

One of my favourite films, captures a the 60's and how it looked back then! - @Thursday, June 16, 2011 4:00 PM

John Robertson

the best 60s movie..british classic - @Thursday, May 12, 2011 11:19 PM

Pipkin Hopkins

The Church in old Stockport ! Fuck Morrisey, he don't even live in England but spouts about it. A cheque book socialist. Once he got the cash he pissed off ! - @Friday, April 29, 2011 12:02 PM

jtab4994

Can't wait - it's on Turner Classic Thursday at 10:00PM eastern time. Not available on Region 1 DVD so this is my only chance to see it! - @Monday, March 7, 2011 6:54 PM

rdtv

THIS IS ENGLAND 61 - @Friday, February 25, 2011 10:48 PM

70moparbaby

what a beezle! the guy gets her a present and she gets mad and throws it :/ haha now SHES being irish! - @Sunday, February 20, 2011 2:22 AM