
Zack Mayo is a young man who has signed up for Navy Aviation Officer Candidate School. He is a Navy brat who has a bad attitude problem. Gunnery Sergeant Emil 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.... (Full plot summary below)
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Zack Mayo is a young man who has signed up for Navy Aviation Officer Candidate School. He is a Navy brat who has a bad attitude problem. Gunnery Sergeant Emil 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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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAn Officer and a Gentleman is the best movie about love that I've seen in a long time. |
| The New York TimesJanet MaslinUndeniably, 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. |
| People MagazineRalph NovakAn Officer and a Gentleman is a 1980s version that doesn't tamper much with the formula, but it does revitalize it, thanks to the erotic teamwork of Richard Gere and Debra Winger. |
| VarietyVariety StaffRarely does a film come along with so many finely-drawn characters to care about. |
| Time OutGeoff AndrewMacho, 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. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrAn 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. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyBlue-collar fairy tale: Richard Gere is the frog-prince and Debra Winger is Cinderella in this extremely old-fashioned yet enjoyable movie, whose few modernist touches are a black sergeant, rougher lingo, and more vivid sexuality. |
| TIME MagazineRichard SchickelIt is full of bang-on melodramatics and simple, romanticized characters with carefully supplied motivations. |
| Common Sense MediaHollis GriffinSo-so coming-of-age military flick; not for kids. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenThe result is a Big Mac of a movie, junk food that somehow reaches the chortling soul. |