Private Lessons is a 1981 American sex comedy film starring Sylvia Kristel, Howard Hesseman, Eric Brown, and Ed Begley Jr.[4] The screenplay was written by Dan Greenburg, who wrote the original source novel, Philly.

Philip "Philly" Fillmore is an adventurous 15-year-old boy and the son of a rich businessman in Phoenix; when his father leaves town on an extended trip during summer break, the young man is left in the passing care of Nicole Mallow, a French housekeeper, and Lester Lewis, the family's chauffeur.

He frequently uses his binoculars to observe her through windows, deliberately walks by her when she is sunbathing beside the pool, and rides his bicycle past her room.

One night, after spotting Philly peeping into her room, she tells him to come inside and, to his utter shock, starts undressing in front of him.

The two convince his tennis coach to pose as a police detective and intimidate Lester with questions about Nicole's disappearance.

In turn, he reluctantly decides not to expose Nicole's illegal alien status nor her acts of child molestation.

When summer vacation ends, Philly returns to high school and immediately gets a date with Miss Phipps, one of his teachers.

The company's announcer at the time, Jay Stewart, provided the narration for one of the movie trailers for the film.

[6] Sunn, initially a subsidiary of the Schick razor company, would be sold to Taft Broadcasting in 1980, shortly before this film's release.

Jensen Farley would later release another sex comedy whose selling point was the promise of a young man coupled with an alluring older woman, Homework with Joan Collins.

Director Alan Myerson and the cinematographer he hired, Jan de Bont, shot their principal photography for the film in Arizona and New Mexico over the course of 6 weeks during the summer of 1980.