A Taste of Honey

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

Plot Summary

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.

6.9 /10

1961

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