We don’t ask for life. We have it thrust upon us.
6.986
100 min
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.
| Name | Character | Team | |
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Rita Tushingham | Jo | Unowned |
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Murray Melvin | Geoffrey Ingham | Unowned |
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Paul Danquah | Jimmy | Unowned |
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Dora Bryan | Helen | Unowned |
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Robert Stephens | Peter Smith | Unowned |
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Michael Bilton | Landlord | Unowned |
| Eunice Black | Schoolteacher | Unowned | |
| David Boliver | Bert | Unowned | |
| Margo Cunningham | Landlady | Unowned | |
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Rosalie Williams | Nurse | Unowned |
| Veronica Howard | Gladys | Unowned | |
| Moira Kaye | Doris | Unowned | |
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Peter Sallis | Man (uncredited) | Unowned |