Playmaker (also known as Private Teacher and Death Date) is a drama/mystery/thriller film starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Rubin, directed by Yuri Zeltser.

Originally, producer Peter Samuelson saw two people standing on a corner holding a sign "looking for money for movie" to turn their screenplay into a feature film.

[3] With the exception of a few scenes, the film was shot almost entirely in one location in Chatsworth, slightly north of Los Angeles, in a house once owned by the popular 1970s singing team Captain & Tennille.

Eager to gain advantage on the competition, Harris' friend Eddie says that he can arrange an introduction with Ross Talbert, an acting teacher with a reputation for grooming top talent.

Harris learns that a number of Talbert's students who didn't respond to his techniques have turned up dead, and she spies an "F" next to her name in his grade book shortly before he attacks her with a knife; she grabs a gun and kills him.

As a result, she tries to find the false teacher, and discovers that he was just an actor like herself, named Michael Condren, and that she is just a puppet on a string in a perverse and bizarre story.

[9][10] Movie Retriever gave the film one and a half out of two, and wrote "Jamie (Rubin) is a struggling actress whose coach Talbert (Firth) guarantees success as long as she follows his bizarre training methods, which include seduction, abuse, and betrayal.