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.
Rita Tushingham
Jo
Murray Melvin
Geoffrey Ingham
Paul Danquah
Jimmy
Dora Bryan
Helen
Robert Stephens
Peter Smith
Michael Bilton
Landlord
Eunice Black
Schoolteacher
David Boliver
Bert
Margo Cunningham
Landlady
Rosalie Williams
Nurse
Veronica Howard
Gladys
Moira Kaye
Doris
LOL
Hard Truths
Bird
About a Boy
Laggies
Seven Minutes in Heaven
What a Girl Wants
Elena Undone
Fatherhood
A Kind of Loving
Real Women Have Curves
All of Us Strangers
An Education
Ghostlight
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
Friends with Kids
May December
10,000 Saints
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Palindromes