RARE & OUT OF PRINT-Jamaica Film: Milk and Honey 1988 Part I

Gene Award for Best Screenplay

Milk and Honey is the heart-warming story of a Jamaican woman's effort to work and keep her child in Toronto despite unsympathetic immigration officials. She encounters a school principal who wants to help and employers who exploit her but she prevails in the end.

JOHANNA BELL CAME TO FIND A NEW LIFE AND A WAY TO KEEP HER SON. THEY WOULDN'T LET HER HAVE BOTH.

Time: 89 minutes
Year: 1988 J.A. Film Company Inc.
Cinema Plus
A Peter O'Brian/Independent Pictures/Cine Flics Production
A Film by Rebecca Yates and Glen Salzman

Starring:

Josette Simon
Lyman Ward
Djanet Sears
Fiona Reid
Leonie Forbes
Richard Mills
Errol Slue

Director of Photography: Guy Dufaux
Art Director: Francois Sguin
Musical Direction and Original Score: Micky Erb & Maribeth Solomon
Line Producer: Gabriella Martinelli
Editor: Bruce Nyznik
Written by Glen Salzman & Trevor Rhone
Produced by: Peter O'Brian
Directed by Rebecca Yates & Glen Salzman
Distribution in Canada: Cinema Plus

Produced with the participation of Telefilm Canada-The Ontario Film Development Corporation and First Choice Canadian Communications Corporation

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Rebecca Yates
• Glen Salzman
• Cinema Plus
• Peter O'Brian
• Trevor Rhone
• Bruce Nyznik
• Gabriella Martinelli
• Micky Erb
• Guy Dufaux
• Leonie Forbes
• J.A. Film Company
• Richard Mills
• Fiona Reid
• Djanet Sears
• Josette Simon
• Lyman Ward
• Errol Slue
• Maribeth Solomon
• The Color Purple
• Oprah winfrey
• Beloved
• A White Dry Season
• Daughters of the Dust
• Spike Lee
• Denzel Washington
• Whoppi Goldberg
• Sarafina
• Sugar Cane Alley
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Grenada
• Antigua
• Belly

[tulipstacy]

OMG.... I have been looking for this movie for years now... Can anyone tell me where i can get a copy on dvd pleaseeeeee??????????? i like moascos69 comment about bin laden, cause no one seems to be able to find this movie anywhere... not even some jamaicans know about this movie...

[Asierramoore]

@tulipstacy - I hunted it down because I remembered how good it was and just felt everyone should have the opportunity to see it.

[leonie85]

i love this film!!! I used to love watching it as a child, need it on dvd!!! So glad u posted this, cant wait to tell my mum its on here. U made my day!

[Asierramoore]

@leonie85 - So glad it was good the second time around.

[mascos69]

Wow girl!! If you found this movie, the US should hire you to find Bin Laden...lol....just finished watching it. Good movie but the fake Jamaican accents were killing me except for Miss Leonie---a true Jamaican cinema Icon. Oh well I guess that's all they could get 20 years ago...great find

[Asierramoore]

Thanks...that made me laugh. I wish I could make some money doing search and find. lol

[ROCKNROLLFAN]

white people dont even like light skinned black people and ive heard them make jokes and laugh about black women and how black women are easy and they always have their legs open.....RACIST!

[ROCKNROLLFAN]

and in these type of films, a black woman is always gotta be a maid or a mamma taking care and nurturing someone's elses white baby which is a very bad stereotype for black women and black people.....show black men and women in a positive perspective for a change but this is the late 80s so it doesnt surprise me.

[ROCKNROLLFAN]

in this case, the white man was married but yet she was going to let a white man fuck her just because she gave him a place to live for a night or two. white men have been married and using black women as mistress since slavery and this film is GARBAGE....

[ROCKNROLLFAN]

if you notice in the scene where the white man talked about how he fucking a black woman would get rid of his troubles.....I dont like these kinds of movies because some white man is always gotta be trying to fuck a black woman which is RACIST and they use them as sex objects and its just a fantasy to a white man to fuck a black woman. Its been going on since slavery where a white man would use a black woman as a mistress and this white man in this film was married.

[LadiiTricia23]

@ROCKNROLLFAN she is saying "ma'am" but her "accent" makes it seems as if she is saying mom.

[sexyb28ful]

wow i am in the movie the same little girl in the dress and hat too bad i only see a short clip

[mikeygeneral]

Bad drive them Maffi !

[ROCKNROLLFAN]

I dont like this movie at all....why is she calling the white woman that she is working for "mom"......that sets a bad example for black women.

[theworldGodonlyknows]

she looks cute, beautiful skin tone

[pryncessable]

I love this movie, am wondering the same as others where can I buy it? I saw something that says out of print, does it mean its not printable to dvd?

Wow! look @ Maffi, Olivers sidekick. Good to see him in his early days of acting. Cho watch Pinky eye them "pass him u mus pass him"

These sounds like authentic jamaican actors, love that, I always wonder  why in some movies the directors use(american actors) fake-jamaican accents when they are talent jamaican actors?