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Private Lessons (1981) 4.8
An immigrant housemaid seduces a 15-year-old boy and later fakes her own death as part of his chauffeur's blackmail plot. Troubles arise when the two start to fall in love. Director:Alan Myerson |
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Nicole Mallow
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Lester Lewis
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Eric Brown | ... |
Phillip Fillmore
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Meridith Baer | ... |
Miss Phipps
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Pamela Jean Bryant | ... |
Joyce
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Waiter
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Patrick Piccininni | ... |
Sherman
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Jack Travis
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Ron Foster | ... |
Mr. Fillmore
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Beans Morocco | ... |
Green, The Gardener
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Dan Greenburg | ... |
Hotel Owner
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Marian Gibson | ... |
Florence
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Judy Helden | ... |
Miss Kristel's Double
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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. Written by Anonymous
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When EMANUELLE's Sylvia Kristel is your teacher the bedroom is the classroom [DVD Australia] See more »Genres:
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26 August 1981 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Lecciones privadas See more »Box Office
Budget:
$2,800,000 (estimated)Gross:
$26,279,000 (USA)Company Credits
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Performed by Earth Wind & Fire (as Earth, Wind & Fire)
Composed by Maurice White (as M. White), Eddie del Barrio (as E. del Barrio),
Verdine White (as V. White)
Publisher: Saggifire Music and Criga Music
Courtesy of CBS Records
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The movie is meant to take place over the summer, however when we first see Nicole she is picking oranges, which tend to ripen in December and January. See more »Soundtracks
"Fantasy"Performed by Earth Wind & Fire (as Earth, Wind & Fire)
Composed by Maurice White (as M. White), Eddie del Barrio (as E. del Barrio),
Verdine White (as V. White)
Publisher: Saggifire Music and Criga Music
Courtesy of CBS Records
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Okay, after about 27 years of only seeing the first 30 minutes of this movie on HBO (due to my fears of my parents finding out that their then-teenage son was watching something R-rated), I finally saw the whole thing today on a used VHS tape that still had a clear picture. In summation, I mostly found this movie mostly humorously touching concerning the sex scenes between Sylvia Kristel and Eric Brown (who was 16-playing-15 when he filmed this), pretty hilarious whenever the ridiculous blackmail plot goes into gear during the second half (though I thought it was a mistake to intentionally film the "burial" of Nicole in such a not-so-serious manner), and just nostalgic whenever many of the Top 40 hits of the late '70s play on the soundtrack. Not a great film but Private Lessons was mostly entertaining. P.S. The movie's writer, Dan Greenburg who has a cameo as a motel clerk, is from my birthtown of Chicago, Ill.