An Officer And A Gentleman
An Officer and a Gentleman is a psychological emotional drama revolving around Zack Mayo, a young Navy boy. He is in trouble with the commander. GySgt Foley, a training officer, takes responsible for training and evaluation Zack. Then, Zack meets Paula, a beautiful girl. This time Zack realizes he really wants something in his life.
27 May 1936, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
23 October 1946, Dallas, Texas, USA
10 February 1949, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
3 April 1956, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
18 May 1934, Austin, Texas, USA
8 May 1954, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
16 September 1949, Los Angeles, California, USA
4 December 1934, Santa Barbara, California, USA
1 July 1957, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
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.
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 06, 2010
Rarely does a film come along with so many finely-drawn characters to care about.
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.
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
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.
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
Phenomenally successful at the time of its release, but increasingly dated-looking.
January 01, 2011
So-so coming-of-age military flick; not for kids.
July 31, 2013
It is full of bang-on melodramatics and simple, romanticized characters with carefully supplied motivations.
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.
