An Officer and a Gentleman (Blu-ray) R
Life gave him nothing, except the courage to win...and a woman to love.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 4 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: September 12, 2017
- Originally Released: 1982
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Richard Gere, Debra Winger, David Keith & Louis Gossett, Jr. | |
Performer: | Robert Loggia, Lisa Blount, Lisa Eilbacher, David Caruso, Victor French & Grace Zabriskie | |
Directed by | Taylor Hackford | |
Edited by | Peter Zinner | |
Screenwriting by | Douglas Day Stewart | |
Composition by | Jack Nitzsche | |
Produced by | Martin Elfand | |
Director of Photography: | Donald E. Thorin |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1982 -
Best Original Song: Buffy Sainte-Marie, Jack Nitzsche & Will Jennings
Academy Awards 1982 -
Best Supporting Actor: Louis Gossett, Jr.
Entertainment Reviews:
...Many finely-drawn characters to care about....[The director] controls these characters completely, deftly mixing his documentarian's training with the dramatist's art...
Variety
An 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.
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People Magazine
It is full of bang-on melodramatics and simple, romanticized characters with carefully supplied motivations.
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TIME Magazine
[T]he two stars are mighty captivating. -- Grade: B
Entertainment Weekly
The first part of the movie is valuable... It harbors hopes that this will be an interesting movie. Later, however, these hopes are drowned. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Rating: 4/4 --
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.
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Chicago Sun-Times
...A first-rate movie -- a beautifully acted, thoroughly involving romance...
New York Times
Product Description:
Zack Mayo (Richard Gere) has nothing--the son of an alcoholic, indifferent military father, he's grown up in the Philippines living on top of a brothel. But after college he decides he wants more and, despite his father's mockery, enrolls in the navy's Officer Candidate School to become a jet pilot. His sergeant, brilliantly played by Louis Gossett Jr., makes his life a living hell from day one, but Zack won't quit. The candidates are warned to stay away from the local girls looking for naval husbands, but Zack and his bunkmate, Sid (David Keith), find themselves falling for two friends, Paula (Debra Winger) and Lynette (Lisa Blount), who work at the local paper mill. Zack fights his feelings for Paula, determined to let nothing sway him from his goals. But as the hellish weeks of training go by, Zack begins to see that maybe he can't do it alone--and that what's getting him through are his friends in the ranks, and the girl he's been pushing away. Widely acclaimed at the time of its release, director Taylor Hackford's inspiring film is a romance for the ages.