Milk and Honey (1988)

Directed by

Glen Salzman, Rebecca Yates

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 29m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Jamaican woman moves to Toronto to work as a nanny for a wealthy couple so she can later bring her son to Canada. The film follows her struggles with the immigration process and her relationship with the family.

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What happens

Milk and Honey is a 1988 Canadian drama film. It stars Josette Simon as Joanna Bell, a young woman from Jamaica who takes a job in Toronto as a nanny for a wealthy couple (Tom Butler and Fiona Reid), in the hope of permanently immigrating to Canada with her son David (Richard Mills). The cast also includes Lyman Ward, Djanet Sears, Leonie Forbes, Errol Slue, Charles Hyatt, Jackie Richardson, Robert Wisden and Diane D'Aquila. The film was written by Glen Salzman and Trevor Rhone, and directed by Salzman and Rebecca Yates. The film premiered at the 1988 Toronto International Film Festival. Due to a creative conflict with producer Peter O'Brian, however, Salzman and Yates refused to attend the film's premiere, and released an open letter to the media stating that the finished film did not reflect their personal artistic vision. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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