Storyline
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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Cast
Robert Loggia, Richard Gere, Grace Zabriskie, Louis Gossett, Jr., Debra Winger, David Keith, Tony Plana, David Caruso, Harold Sylvester, Lisa Eilbacher, Victor French, John Laughlin, Lisa Blount, Tommy Petersen, Mara Scott-Wood, David Greenfield, Dennis Rucker, Jane Wilbur, Buck Welcher, Vern Taylor, Elizabeth Rogers, David R. Marshall, Gary C. Stillwell, Tee Dennard, Norbert M. Murray, Daniel Tyler, William S. Graves, Pia Boyer, Danna Kiesel, Meleesa Wyatt, Jo Anna Keane, Bernard Madrid, Randy Tat
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Reviews
100
An Officer and a Gentleman is the best movie about love that I've seen in a long time.
90
The New York Times
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.
90
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.
88
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.
80
Chicago Reader
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.
