An Officer and a Gentleman (Blu-ray) PG
Life gave him nothing, except the courage to win...and a woman to love.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours, 4 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 7, 2013
- Originally Released: 1982
- Label: Paramount Catalog
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:
It's a straight-out drama in the old Hollywood style. As such, it works fairly well, though its lapses in taste are sour reminders of the subtlety Hollywood has lost in recent years.
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Christian Science Monitor
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.
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Time Out
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
Rating: 3.5/4 --
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.
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TV Guide
Rating: 3/5 --
Not even the combined talents of Debra Winger and an Oscar-winning Louis Gossett Jr can turn this one into a great movie, but if you're in the mood for a wallow, it's perfect.
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Radio Times
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)
It is full of bang-on melodramatics and simple, romanticized characters with carefully supplied motivations.
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TIME Magazine
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.