A Taste of Honey
DVD - 2016
Based on one of the most controversial plays of its time, shows how a disaffected teenager finds her way amid the economic desperation of industrial Manchester, and despite an absent, self-absorbed mother. With its unapologetic identification with social outcasts and its sensitive, modern approach to matters of sexuality and race, a classic that is still a startling benchmark work of realism.
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Publisher:
[New York, N.Y.] :, The Criterion Collection,, [2016]
Edition:
DVD edition., Two-DVD special edition.
ISBN:
9781681431956
Branch Call Number:
DVD FICTION TAS
Characteristics:
2 videodiscs (100 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
DVD video,4 3/4 in.,rda
digital,optical,mono,Dolby Digital 1.0,rda
widescreen
NTSC,rda
video file,DVD video,region 1,rda
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Alternative Title:
Momma don't allow.
Remaking British theater.
Remaking British theater.
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Add a CommentFilms don’t get braver than this, which tackles interracial relationships, teen pregnancy and the dignity of gay people. It feels very real even now, nearly sixty years after its making. I enjoyed it and felt a lot of empathy for its characters.
Excellent acting & vivid depiction of 1950's working class Manchester. More of a character sketch than a satisfying story.
Terrific. And it still holds up after almost 60 years. Gritty and unsentimental but you really care about the 2 leads.
It also pairs up nicely with the first few series of Call The Midwife which shares the same milieu. (Note: not the later CTM series - they seem to be getting more sentimental and mawkish each year.)