Film198187 min

Private Lessons

Name: Private Lessons
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: 1981
Duration: 87 min
Cast: Sylvia Kristel, Howard Hesseman, Eric Brown, Meridith Baer, Pamela Jean Bryant

Taste attributes: comedyromanceteentried & testedrealisticsimplelinearenclosedemotive & stirringcoming of ageinjustice/tragedy/vengeancelove conquers all

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"When EMANUELLE's Sylvia Kristel is your teacher the bedroom is the classroom"

Boxlist takeUncomplicated and stirring: a realistic romantic comedy, small-scale rather than epic. Best if you like stories that hit hard.

Taste details

Pace: balanced · Originality: tried and tested · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: true to life · Story: simple · Structure: very linear · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score

Quality rating

5.7 /10

TMDB · 61 votes

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Emotional punch: Emotive / stirring, just how this profile likes it
Setting / scale: Small / confined, just how this profile likes it

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Intricacy: Basic story, where this profile leans smart / intricate
Originality: Tried & tested, where this profile leans fresh / original

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Synopsis

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.

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