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.
10 February 1949, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
16 May 1955, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA
5 May 1956, Dharan, Saudi Arabia
23 October 1946, Dallas, Texas, USA
7 January 1956, Forest Hills, New York, USA
15 August 1932
27 May 1936, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
3 April 1956, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
18 May 1934, Austin, Texas, USA
16 September 1949, Los Angeles, California, USA
31 August 1949, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
8 May 1954, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
19 April 1952, Havana, Cuba
17 May 1941, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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
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.
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 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
It is full of bang-on melodramatics and simple, romanticized characters with carefully supplied motivations.
July 06, 2010
Rarely does a film come along with so many finely-drawn characters to care about.
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.
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
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.
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.
