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Private Lessons
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5.7Phillip Filmore is a naive, 15-year-old, preoccupied with sex, who develops a crush on Nicole Mallow, the new 30-something, French housekeeper and sitter to look after him when Phillip's father is out of town for the summer on a "business" trip. But Mr. Filmore's unscrupulous chauffeur, Lester Lewis, takes advantage of Phillip's crush on Nicole to hire her to seduce the youth, then draws her into a plot to fake her own death in a blackmail scheme aimed to drain Phillip's trust fund.
Released: 1981-05-0187 minDir: Alan MyersonComedy, RomanceBudget: $2.8MBox office: $26.3M
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Cast
- Sylvia Kristel as Mallow
- Howard Hesseman as Lester
- Eric Brown as Philly
- Patrick Piccininni as Sherman
- Ed Begley Jr. as Jack Travis
- Pamela Jean Bryant as Joyce
Themes
- first time
- chauffeur
- bathroom
- blackmail
- sexual attraction
- statutory rape
- lust
- teenage boy
- sexual desire
- fatal attraction
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- Duration
- 77
- FilmAffinity ID
- 289047
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- publication date
- 1981-08-21
- title
- Private Lessons
- review score
- 3.2/10
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1980s coming-of-age comedy films1980s sex comedy films1980s teen comedy films1981 American films1981 comedy films1981 English-language films1981 films1981 independent filmsAmerican coming-of-age comedy filmsAmerican independent filmsAmerican sex comedy filmsAmerican sexploitation filmsAmerican teen comedy filmsEnglish-language independent filmsEnglish-language sex comedy filmsFilms about virginityFilms based on American novelsFilms directed by Alan MyersonFilms set in ArizonaFilms shot in ArizonaFilms shot in New MexicoJensen Farley Pictures filmsRotten Tomatoes ID different from WikidataTeen sex comedy films