Private Lessons

Penned by Dan Greenburg, Private Lessons details the plight of a rich, fifteen-year-old boy (Eric Brown) whose French maid (Sylvia Kristel of the Emmanuelle series) is hired to teach him the finer points of l'amour. A contrived subplot involving a blackmail scheme complicates matters but really only ...more

Private Lessons is the prototypical example of 'young man, older woman' subgenre of the teen sex comedy. The teen-seduced-by-older-woman plot hook was novel at the time, and the ambitiously plotted script mixes some blackmail and suspense elements in with the usual sex-comedy high jinx. Even better, Private Lessons is a very well-cast film: Sylvia Kristel fulfills the fantasy-woman role nicely, Eric Brown makes a believably hormonal teen and reliable performers like Howard Hesseman and Ed Begley ...more