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Private Lessons
“When EMANUELLE's Sylvia Kristel is your teacher the bedroom is the classroom”
5.7 / 10• 1981• 1h 27m•R• English
ComedyRomance
Storyline
Phillip 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.
Cast & Crew
Sylvia Kristel
Mallow
Lead
Howard Hesseman
Lester
Eric Brown
Philly
Patrick Piccininni
Sherman
Ed Begley Jr.
Jack Travis
Pamela Jean Bryant
Joyce
Meridith Baer
Miss Phipps
Ron Foster
Fillmore
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Alan Myerson's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Private Lessons is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
