An Officer and a Gentleman
1982 Directed by Taylor Hackford
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Life gave him nothing, except the courage to win...and a woman to love.
Zack Mayo is a young man who has signed up for Navy Flight School. He is a Navy brat who has a bad attitude problem. Sgt. Foley is there to train and evaluate him and will clearly find Zack wanting. Zack meets Paula, a girl who has little beyond family and must decide what it is he wants to do with his life.
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As soon as the movie starts you know where An Officer and a Gentleman will go and end. But I didn't care! I still get chills at the end.
This movie is also an inside joke for my hubby and I.
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One of my favourite romantic/dramas. I love this movie. I can't describe, I now see it as my guilty pleasure movie. Richard Gere and Debra Winger had amazing chemistry that might of made me cry, might. This movie came out before Top Gun, but since I saw Top Gun first, I have to say they have similarities. The love story and having his best friend die among other things.
"Now this is my idea of an ass bandit." - Foley
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A surprisingly moving and effective drama that is very distinctly 80s but doesn't suffer from it. Gere is a strong leading man and Winger may have never been better, but Louis Gossett, Jr.'s Oscar-winning sergeant is a fiery force of nature.
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I think the last time I saw this film, I must have been about 9 or 10. Now, I like to think I was a fairly smart, cine-literate kid. But there's no way I understood what the hell was going on in An Officer and a Gentleman. Because I don't remember much about the film. I just remember two things. First, I remember thinking what a prick Louis Gossett Jnr was in this film. And second, I remember thinking how ugh ugly Debra Winger was.
Now, twenty-odd years later, let me re-evaluate my position on a couple of things. First, Debra Winger was so goddamn pretty in this film. Like, unbelievably pretty. Pretty enough that it made me sad I…
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Hmmmm - now this is hailed as one of the most romantic movies out there and Richard is gorgeous ... however, i just didnt like it. It was less romance and more real life! I suppose i am a bit of a chick flick girl at heart and i do like the dripping romance. All those men in uniform is lush though - but the ending sucks ... shouldnt end like that (not the romance bit obviously)!!!
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One of my favourite romantic/dramas. I love this movie. I can't describe, I now see it as my guilty pleasure movie. Richard Gere and Debra Winger had amazing chemistry that might of made me cry, might. This movie came out before Top Gun, but since I saw Top Gun first, I have to say they have similarities. The love story and having his best friend die among other things.
"Now this is my idea of an ass bandit." - Foley
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A surprisingly moving and effective drama that is very distinctly 80s but doesn't suffer from it. Gere is a strong leading man and Winger may have never been better, but Louis Gossett, Jr.'s Oscar-winning sergeant is a fiery force of nature.
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Watched this with the missus. We could absolutely see why this was a hit - just enough machismo to counter the romance, and vice versa. Gere is still a dick, though.
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I think the last time I saw this film, I must have been about 9 or 10. Now, I like to think I was a fairly smart, cine-literate kid. But there's no way I understood what the hell was going on in An Officer and a Gentleman. Because I don't remember much about the film. I just remember two things. First, I remember thinking what a prick Louis Gossett Jnr was in this film. And second, I remember thinking how ugh ugly Debra Winger was.
Now, twenty-odd years later, let me re-evaluate my position on a couple of things. First, Debra Winger was so goddamn pretty in this film. Like, unbelievably pretty. Pretty enough that it made me sad I…
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As soon as the movie starts you know where An Officer and a Gentleman will go and end. But I didn't care! I still get chills at the end.
This movie is also an inside joke for my hubby and I.
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Watched in Lake Townsend over Valentine's Day which, in the exact room that this movie was shot in. Can't beat that.
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Hmmmm - now this is hailed as one of the most romantic movies out there and Richard is gorgeous ... however, i just didnt like it. It was less romance and more real life! I suppose i am a bit of a chick flick girl at heart and i do like the dripping romance. All those men in uniform is lush though - but the ending sucks ... shouldnt end like that (not the romance bit obviously)!!!
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This movie gets the job done, but is also easily lost in the crowd for lacking higher aspirations. It has some mostly sharp performances from pilot trainee Richard Gere (with a voice sounding unusually baritone) and Louis Gossett Jr. as his drill instructor. Remove them from the movie and you don't have anything left that stands out be it content or characters, although Hackford's technical work is alright. David Keith is basically throwaway up to his suicide as a buddy of Gere's, and the female characters of import - Debra Winger and the two Lisas - are oddly pallid figures. The most interesting thing about any of them is that the younger Winger, way before Rachel Getting Married's time,…
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I have a soft spot for Taylor hackford's breakout feature AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN despite being very much a film of its time, full of the usual stack of idealising and stereotyping. The film's newly minted star Richard Gere - whose fortunes rose two years before in Paul Schrader's AMERICAN GIGOLO - kept me on side with his rough blend of easy going charm, damaged nonchalance and emotional outbursts. I didn't really remain a Gere fan but as inevitable naval inmate Zack Mayo he did the trick, well matched against Louis Gossett Jr. giving the 'tough love' routine his antagonistic best as typically hard-nosed, misanthropic Drill Sgt. Foley. And goodness me but it is only during this rewatch that…