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Officer and a Gentleman, An

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Based on 8 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama | Romance
Written by: Douglas Day Stewart
Directed by: Taylor Hackford
Release Date:
Theatrical: July 28, 1982
DVD: December 12, 2000
Running Time: 122 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R
Starring Richard Gere, Debra Winger, Louis Gossett Jr., David Keith, and Lisa Blount
Zack Mayo (Gere) joins the Navy to make a new life for himself. Along the way he gains respect from his drill instructor Sergeant Foley (Gossett Jr.) and falls in love with local girl Paula (Winger).
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What The Critics Said
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
An Officer and a Gentleman is the best movie about love that I've seen in a long time.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Janet Maslin
Undeniably, there's an element of corniness to this. But that doesn't keep An Officer and a Gentleman from being a first-rate movie - a beautifully acted, thoroughly involving romance.
Read Full Review >Variety Staff (Not Credited)
An Officer and a Gentleman deserves a 21-gun salute, maybe 42. Rarely does a film come along with so many finely-drawn characters to care about.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Staff (Not Credited)
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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Dave Kehr
An awesomely, stiflingly professional piece of work, with a fleet, superficial visual style, perfectly placed climaxes, and a screenplay (by Douglas Day Stewart) that doesn't waste a single character or situation - everything is functional, and nothing but functional.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
From its title on down, An Officer and a Gentleman (at the Plaza) is both a thoroughly rousing crowd-pleaser and a shamelessly manipulative banner-waver, a homage to the never-practiced ethics of a non-existent era. [28 Jul 1982]
Boston Globe Michael Blowen
An Officer and a Gentleman has so many echoes that it never finds its own voice. [29 Jul 1982]
Time Richard Schickel
The result is a Big Mac of a movie, junk food that somehow reaches the chortling soul.
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