Despite great performances by Rita Tushingham and Dora Bryan as daughter and mother respectively, the picture A Taste of Honey left a bitter taste in my mouth by film's end.
Bryan really lets loose as the prostitute mother-uncaring and a loose liver if ever there were one. Tushingham, as her very neglected daughter, and a social outcast among her peers, soon finds herself pregnant from a black sailor and when he leaves, she takes up residence with a homosexual, who is sympathetic to her needs.
Robert Stephens is also very good as the mother's new man in her life.
There is constant battling between mother and daughter so that is why I found the ending to be not exactly honest, though many would say it was honey-like.
Bryan really lets loose as the prostitute mother-uncaring and a loose liver if ever there were one. Tushingham, as her very neglected daughter, and a social outcast among her peers, soon finds herself pregnant from a black sailor and when he leaves, she takes up residence with a homosexual, who is sympathetic to her needs.
Robert Stephens is also very good as the mother's new man in her life.
There is constant battling between mother and daughter so that is why I found the ending to be not exactly honest, though many would say it was honey-like.