- Drama
- 100 min
Rotten Tomatoes85%IMDb7.4
We don’t ask for life. We have it thrust upon us.
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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Prestige, earnest, grave and intimate.
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
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Cast
- Rita TushinghamJo
- Murray MelvinGeoffrey Ingham
- Paul DanquahJimmy
- Dora BryanHelen
- Robert StephensPeter Smith
- Michael BiltonLandlord
- Eunice BlackSchoolteacher
- David BoliverBert
- Margo CunninghamLandlady
- Rosalie WilliamsNurse
Crew
- Tony RichardsonDirector
- Shelagh DelaneyScreenplay
- Tony RichardsonScreenplay
- Walter LassallyDirector of Photography
- John AddisonOriginal Music Composer
- Antony GibbsEditor
- Tony RichardsonProducer
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