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An Officer And A Gentleman
This powerful drama tells of a passionate emotional drama about Zack Mayo, a young Navy boy. Zack appears to be in trouble with the leader. After a while, the training officer, GySgt Foley, is responsible for training and evaluation of the Zack. Zack may eventually meet a pretty girl named Paula, and this time Zack realizes that he wants something in his life and perhaps romantic or exciting.
17 May 1941, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
5 May 1956, Dharan, Saudi Arabia
3 January 1930, Staten Island, New York, USA
18 May 1934, Austin, Texas, USA
23 October 1946, Dallas, Texas, USA
4 December 1934, Santa Barbara, California, USA
January 01, 2011
So-so coming-of-age military flick; not for kids.
August 30, 2004
A conventional but hugely compelling drama.
January 26, 2006
Macho, materialistic, and pro-militarist, it's an objectionable little number made all the more insidious by the way Hackford pulls the strings and turns it into a heart-chilling weepie.
July 31, 2013
The performances are uniformly strong, with Gere offering some of his best work -- though it pales in comparison with Gossett's tour de force as the tough, principled Sgt. Foley.
July 31, 2013
Not even the combined talents of Debra Winger and an Oscar-winning Louis Gossett Jr can turn this one into a great movie, but if you're in the mood for a wallow, it's perfect.
July 31, 2013
Phenomenally successful at the time of its release, but increasingly dated-looking.
July 31, 2013
Taylor Hackford's 1982 film is an awesomely, stiflingly professional piece of work, with a fleet, superficial visual style, perfectly placed climaxes, and a screenplay that doesn't waste a single character or situation.
July 31, 2013
An Officer and a Gentleman is a 1980s version that doesn't tamper much with the formula, but it does revitalize it, thanks to the erotic teamwork of Richard Gere and Debra Winger.
July 06, 2010
Rarely does a film come along with so many finely-drawn characters to care about.
October 23, 2004
An Officer and a Gentleman is the best movie about love that I've seen in a long time. Maybe that's because it's not about "love" as a Hollywood concept, but about love as growth, as learning to accept other people for who and what they are.
July 31, 2013
It is full of bang-on melodramatics and simple, romanticized characters with carefully supplied motivations.
July 31, 2013
It's a straight-out drama in the old Hollywood style. As such, it works fairly well, though its lapses in taste are sour reminders of the subtlety Hollywood has lost in recent years.