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1981 • 1h 27min • R • Comedy, Romance

Private Lessons

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

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.

IMDb 5.1

MC 34

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Alan Myerson

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Dan Greenburg

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Sylvia Kristel

Mallow

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

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Pamela Jean Bryant Joyce

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