My Tutor

My Tutor (1983) charts the summer fling between Bobby Chrystal, a high school senior desperate to pass his French class and gain entry to Yale, and his 29-year-old tutor, a woman hired by Bobby’s controlling father. As Bobby’s friends seek reckless adventures, he immerses himself in clandestine lessons and burgeoning romance with his tutor, exploring the boundaries between academic discipline and personal indulgence. The film’s tight focus on a summer’s worth of missed curfews and stolen moments captures the fraught transition from adolescence to adulthood with subtle acuity.