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Once in a great while a movie comes along that truly grips and uplifts its audiences. Such a movie is An Officer And A Gentleman, a timeless tale of romance, friendship and growth. Loner Zack Mayo (Richard Gere) enters Officer Candidate School to become a Navy pilot and in thirteen tortuous weeks he learns the importance of discipline, love and friendship. Louis Gossett, Jr. won an Academy Award* for his brilliant portrayal of the tough drill instructor who teaches Zack that no man can make it alone. And while Gossett tries to warn the young officer about the local girls who will do anything to catch themselves pilot husbands, Zack eventually learns to love one (Debra Winger) while his fellow candidate, a memorable character portrayed by David Keith, struggles with a very different fate. An Officer And A Gentleman is a rich and satisfying story with moving performances that will stay with you long after the film has ended.

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Richard Gere plays an enrollee at a Naval officers candidate school, and Debra Winger is the woman who wants him. That's pretty much it, story-wise, in this romantic drama, which is more effective in a moment-to-moment, scene-by-scene way, where the two stars and Oscar-winner Louis Gossett Jr.--as Gere's tough-as-nails drill instructor--are fun to watch. Sexy, syrupy, with occasional pitches of high drama (Gere having a near-breakdown during training is pretty strong), An Officer and a Gentleman proves to be a no-brainer date movie. --Tom Keogh

Rating : - Worth Two Thumbs Up
This 1982 flick was kind of a bitter sweet movie that was touching, heartfelt, that would make you smile and want to cry, since it's a movie about a young man(Richard Gere) who decides to join the Navy to do something with his life to get away from his sleazy alcoholic father who ends up going through hell & back while serving in the Navy and falls in love with a foxy down on her luck small town lady(Debra Winger)who supports Zack(Richard Gere)throughout his whole ordeal in the second half of this movie topped off with a touching heartfelt ending to the movie when Gere picks up Winger & takes her out of the factory while they play the pretty love song "Up Where We Belong" by Joe Cocker.

Therefore, that song "Up Where We Belong" by Joe Cocker always makes me think of this movie, since it was released around the same time as that song was.

Richard Gere and Debra Winger were a hot and cute looking couple, especially in their sexy touching lovemaking scene in the middle of the movie showing Winger & Gere in bed together in total nudity showing us everything, but Wingers coochie and Gere's pee pee.

This movie takes me all the way back to memory lane when AN OFFICER & A GENTLEMAN was released in the movies back in the Summer of 1982 when we were still going through the recession we had back in 1981-1982 when Ronald Reagan was president.

So if you liked AMERICAN GIGALO, BREATHLESS, or PRETTY WOMAN, you shall like AN OFFICER & A GENTLEMAN, since Gere does his same kind of sexy acting techniques that he used with other female co-stars in a lot of his other movies.