Rotten
It is full of bang-on melodramatics and simple, romanticized characters with carefully supplied motivations.
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
An Officer and a Gentleman
Life gave him nothing, except the courage to win...and a woman to love.
1982 · 2h 4m · R
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Taylor Hackford
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An Officer and a Gentleman
Overview
Zack Mayo is an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he arrives at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul of abrasive, no-nonsense drill Sergeant Emil Foley. Mayo is an excellent cadet, but a little cold around the heart, so Foley rides him mercilessly, sensing that the young man would be prime officer material if he weren't so self-involved. Zack's affair with a working girl is likewise compromised by his unwillingness to give of himself.
Director and cast
- Taylor Hackford Director
- Richard Gere as Zack Mayo
- Debra Winger as Paula Pokrifki
- Louis Gossett Jr. as Sergeant Emil Foley
- David Keith as Sid Worley
- Robert Loggia as Byron Mayo
- Lisa Blount as Lynette Pomeroy
- Lisa Eilbacher as Casey Seeger
- Harold Sylvester as Perryman
- David Caruso as Topper Daniels
- Grace Zabriskie as Esther Pokrifiki
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
79%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Taylor Hackford's 1982 film is an awesomely, stiflingly professional piece of work, with a fleet, superficial visual style, perfectly placed climaxes, and a screenplay that doesn't waste a single character or situation.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Rarely does a film come along with so many finely-drawn characters to care about.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
Macho, materialistic, and pro-militarist, it's an objectionable little number made all the more insidious by the way Hackford pulls the strings and turns it into a heart-chilling weepie.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
An Officer and a Gentleman is the best movie about love that I've seen in a long time. Maybe that's because it's not about "love" as a Hollywood concept, but about love as growth, as learning to accept other people for who and what they are.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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