The read
Audiences rate it 17 points higher than critics do. Most of the 1,003 1980s comedy movies in this catalog score higher. It runs a compact 1h 27m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb5.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes0%
Metacritic34/100
Audiences rate it 17 points higher than critics do.
133 audience votes
Key crew
- Alan MyersonDirector
- Dan GreenburgWriter
Cast
- Sylvia KristelMallow
- Howard HessemanLester
- Eric BrownPhilly
- Patrick PiccininniSherman
- Ed Begley Jr.Jack Travis
- Pamela Jean BryantJoyce
- Meridith BaerMiss Phipps
- Ron FosterFillmore
- Peter ElblingWaiter
- Beans MoroccoGreen
- Dan GreenburgHotel Owner
- Marian GibsonFlorence
Stills
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Themes
first timechauffeurbathroomblackmailsexual attractionstatutory rapelustteenage boysexual desirefatal attractionolder woman younger man relationshipsexual awakening