My Tutor

Bobby Chrystal is a high school senior whose plans for Yale are derailed when he fails French. His wealthy, authoritarian father hires a tutor for the summer so Bobby can pass a make-up exam. The tutor, Terry, is an attractive woman in her late twenties, and the arrangement meant to fix his grades turns into something else entirely. Bobby's friends pull him into misadventures of their own, but the time he spends with Terry becomes the focus of his summer.

My Tutor was released in March 1983 and runs 97 minutes. It is an American production from Lionsgate, Crown International Pictures and Marimark Productions, directed by George Bowers from a screenplay by Joe Roberts and produced by Marilyn Jacobs Tenser. It was the first of the two films Bowers directed, followed by Private Resort in 1985. Caren Kaye plays Terry and Matt Lattanzi plays Bobby, with Kevin McCarthy and Arlene Golonka as his parents, and Bruce Bauer and Clark Brandon among a credited cast of 27.

The film took in about 23 million dollars worldwide, a strong return for a low-budget teen comedy of its era, suggesting it found its audience despite mixed word of mouth. On IMDb it holds a 5.2 rating from roughly 4,500 votes, and on TMDB a 5.1 from about 85 votes, indicating that viewers have generally treated it as a minor entry in the early-1980s teen comedy cycle.