Richard Gere plays Zack Mayo, an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he's arrived at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul of abrasive, no-nonsense drill sergeant Emil Foley (Louis Gossett Jr.). Mayo --or Mayonnaise, as he is dubbed by the irascible Foley -- is an excellent cadet, .. Read more
| Starring | Richard Gere, Debra Winger, David Keith, Louis Gossett Jr. |
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| Director | Taylor Hackford |
| Genres | Drama, Romance |
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Richard Gere plays Zack Mayo, an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he's arrived at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul of abrasive, no-nonsense drill sergeant Emil Foley (Louis Gossett Jr.). Mayo --or Mayonnaise, as he is dubbed by the irascible Foley -- is an excellent cadet, but a little cold around the heart. Foley rides Mayo mercilessly, sensing that the young man would be prime officer material if he weren't so self-involved. Zack's affair with working girl Paula Pokrifi (Debra Winger) is likewise compromised by his unwillingness to give of himself. Only after Mayo's best friend Sid Worsley (David Keith) commits suicide over an unhappy romance does Zack come out of his shell and mature into a real human being. Take away the R-rated dialogue and the sex scenes, and Officer and a Gentleman could have been a 1937 MGM flick, maybe with Robert Taylor as Zack, Wallace Beery as Foley, and Jimmy Stewart as Sid. An Officer and a Gentleman was nominated for 7 Oscars, with wins to Gossett and to the hit song Up Where We Belong. The closing scene has surely become a classic of movie romance.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
| Starring | Richard Gere, Debra Winger, David Keith, Louis Gossett Jr., Robert Loggia, Lisa Blount, Lisa Eilbacher |
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| Director | Taylor Hackford |
| Studio | PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 59 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Collections | 100 Eighties Greats |
| Genres | Drama, Romance |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | German |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | Production year: 1982 To Rent: DVD: 09 Apr 2001 |
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Every woman's fantasy
I can't answer for my husband but I thought this film was cracking! I'm off down to our local fancy dress store wink wink :o)
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I have finally seen it all the way through
I started to watch this some time ago and never got to see the end, I loved it then and I love it now it was a really absorbing story and it drew you right into... read more »
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sweet love
Love this film, Richard Gere is brillant and such a gentleman.... Need your box of tissues at hand when watching
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Amazing Must-see
Great story line, has you going through a range of emotions. Really interesting and funny too. Has a really romantic ending which I watch twice as it's so ... read more »
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