An Officer and a Gentleman [Region 2] | ![An Officer and a Gentleman [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rak4164eL._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Taylor Hackford
Actors: Richard Gere, Debra Winger, David Keith, Robert Loggia, Lisa Blount
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  77 reviews
Sales Rank: 160566
Format: Dolby, PAL, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), German (Original Language), English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), Arabic (Subtitled), Bulgarian (Subtitled), Czech (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), German (Subtitled), Hungarian (Subtitled), Icelandic (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Polish (Subtitled), Romanian (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), Turkish (Subtitled), German (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 119 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5014437806338
ASIN: B000058E3F
Theatrical Release Date: August 13, 1982
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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
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 An Officer and a Gentleman (Special Collector's Edition) January 21, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
Zack Mayo is a loner who has never had to rely on anyone but himself. As a child, he was sent to live with his father, a career Navy man based in the Philippines, after his mother commits suicide. There he soon realized that he had to be tough and rely on no one. After graduating from college, he shocks his father by telling that he has enlisted in the Navy and will enter training as a naval aviator. There he brings the same loner attitude he has had all of his life. He does however meet Paula, an attractive young woman who often attends base functions in the hope of nabbing a young officer and Sid Worley, a classmate with whom he forms a close bond. The training is difficult but not as tough as having to deal with their training officer, Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley who teaches Zack a lesson in the importance of relying on your friends and colleagues. With a great soundtrack, strong performances and the most rousing and emotional final scene in a movie since 'Rocky', 'An Officer And A Gentleman' deserves its place among the classics of movie history.
Up where it belongs!!!!! Great Movie September 24, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
When this film was released I was very young. My parents would not let me watch it. When I finally got the chase to watch it, I thought "what if this is boring?" By the end of the movie I was over the moon. Richard Gere was fantastic!! I wanted too date a guy in the Navy. It is simply a wonderful love story. A great date night movie.
Works on every level July 31, 2009
One-Line Film Reviews (Easton, MD)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Bottom Line:
Combining two inherently interesting genres (the boot camp film and the romantic film) into a very pleasing film that generates realistic characters who the audience cares about, An Officer and a Gentleman is also notable for not building a plot based on misunderstandings or goofy coincidences; elegant in its simplicity and construction, it's a very good movie.
3.5/4
 Could have been tragic and it was just romantic May 18, 2009
Jacques COULARDEAU (OLLIERGUES France)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
And some say romantic films don't exist anymore, among others Scott at the New York Times. Here is a perfect example of such romanticism, in a modern environment, that of a navy academy somewhere in the US. Romanticism, drama as well as happy ending, one casualty and one total epiphany. What's more you add to that the bad character of the salvaged hero at the beginning and his complete transformation into a good man, a good heart and a fair mind that will not play around and will finally do what his conscience tells him to do and his hormones force him to fall into. And what's more, the film avoids the dire tragic tone of all the rewritings of Romeo and Juliet. But of course that does not make it a great film, just a soft sweet entertaining moment in life.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, CEGID
An Office and a Gentlman (Special Collector's Edition) April 21, 2009
S. Karunaratne (Sydney, Australia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellant copy of an excellant movie. A movie that did not receive the recognition which it deserved. I wished there was a clip of title song: 'up where you belong'
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