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- 1981
- R
- Jensen Farley Pictures
- 1 h 27 m
- 1981
- R
- Jensen Farley Pictures
- 1 h 27 m
Summary A house maid 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 for each other.
Directed By: Alan Myerson, James Fargo
Written By: Dan Greenburg
- 1981
- R
- Jensen Farley Pictures
- 1 h 27 m
- 1981
- R
- Jensen Farley Pictures
- 1 h 27 m
Private Lessons
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5.2
Summary A house maid 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 for each other.
Directed By: Alan Myerson, James Fargo
Written By: Dan Greenburg
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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40% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
34
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
40% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
60% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Dan Greenburg’s script from his own novel [philly] is very effective in presenting an innocent youth’s point-of-view confronted with the sexual stimuli that pervade modern society. Inability to flesh out this central notion into a feature-length screenplay is a pity, but Private Lessons should satisfy general audiences with its diversions of frequent nudity, softcore sex, dominant rock music score and gags.
Private Lessons is soft core -breasts, garter belts, heavy panting -with a touch of Walt Disney. There is a comic car chase, a funny fat boy and lots of California sunshine. After all, the film, which is based on ''Philly,'' a novel by Dan Greenburg, is supposed to be a comedy. Maybe this is another first, the old porn updated for the new consumer society.
The setup is so conducive to hedonistic wish-fulfillment that it's a pity writer Dan Greenburg and director Alan Myerson lacked the wit to capitalize on it. [20 Nov 1981, p.C3]
This particular wet dream is wrapped in a vacuous blackmail plot (which enables the young hero to fantasise that he's f.cked Sylvia to death, and her to reveal her heart of gold) and padded with lots of horrible Adult Oriented Rock (Clapton, Rod Stewart, etc).
Audiences flocked to see Kristel bare it all in an R-rated film, but "stunt" double Judy Heldon actually does the dirty work.
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Production Company
Barry & Enright Productions
Release Date Aug 28, 1981
Duration 1 h 27 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline When EMMANUELLE's Sylvia Kristel is your teacher the bedroom is the classroom [DVD Australia]
Awards
The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
• 1 Nomination
