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Officer and a Gentleman, An

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Officer and a Gentleman, An 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).

What The Critics Said

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100

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

An Officer and a Gentleman is the best movie about love that I've seen in a long time.

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90

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.

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90

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.

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88

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.

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80

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.

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63

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]

50

Boston Globe Michael Blowen

An Officer and a Gentleman has so many echoes that it never finds its own voice. [29 Jul 1982]

40

Time Richard Schickel

The result is a Big Mac of a movie, junk food that somehow reaches the chortling soul.

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