Faye Hanlon is a community-college professor with an emotionally depressed husband and an abundance of sexual frustration. Her sister drags her to a male strip-club for a girls-night out, where she discovers that one of the dancers is her failing student Rick Monroe, a.k.a. "Ricky the Rocket". A heated affair between teacher & student ensues, as Faye struggles to reconcile her emotions and make consequential life choices: Continue her lustful sessions with the studly-but-shallow teen stripper? Or break it off with Ricky & work to salvage her marriage to the loving-but-distant husband?
Acting
Lesley Ann Warren commits to chaos magnificently
Costume
The outfits deserve their own credit line
Director
John G. Avildsen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Christopher Atkins was still riding his 'Blue Lagoon' fame and reportedly did his own dancing. The director of Rocky somehow said yes to this.
This arrived peak 'Flashdance' era when male stripping barely existed in mainstream film—basically invented the 'hot for teacher' reversal trope.
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