An officer and a gentleman / Paramount Pictures presents a Lorimar production ; written by Douglas Day Stewart ; produced by Martin Elfand ; directed by Taylor Hackford.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 59188449000 | ParamountLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English Publisher: Hollywood, California : Paramount, [2017]Edition: Special collector's editionDescription: 1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 0032429274
- 9780032429277
- Director, Taylor Hackford.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Richard Gere plays Zack Mayo, an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he's arrived at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul of abrasive, no-nonsense drill sergeant Emil Foley (Louis Gossett Jr.). Mayo --or "Mayonnaise," as he is dubbed by the irascible Foley -- is an excellent cadet, but a little cold around the heart. Foley rides Mayo mercilessly, sensing that the young man would be prime officer material if he weren't so self-involved. Zack's affair with working girl Paula Pokrifi (Debra Winger) is likewise compromised by his unwillingness to give of himself. Only after Mayo's best friend Sid Worsley (David Keith) commits suicide over an unhappy romance does Zack come out of his shell and mature into a real human being. Take away the R-rated dialogue and the sex scenes, and Officer and a Gentleman could have been a 1937 MGM flick, maybe with Robert Taylor as Zack, Wallace Beery as Foley, and Jimmy Stewart as Sid. An Officer and a Gentleman was nominated for 7 Oscars, with wins to Gossett and to the hit song "Up Where We Belong." The closing scene has surely become a classic of movie romance. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
DVD; 5.1 Dolby Digital (English); mono Dolby Digital (English, French); NTSC; region 1.
English or French dialogue; English subtitles; closed-captioned.
Title from container.
Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Gere, Debra Winger, Lisa Blount, Lisa Eilbacher.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1982.
Wide screen (enhanced for 16:9 TVs).
MPAA rating: R.
Loner Zack Mayo enters Officer Candidate School to become a Navy pilot and in thirteen weeks he learns the importance of discipline, love and friendship.
Special features: commentary by director Taylor Hackford; An officer and a gentleman; 25 years later; Return to Port Townsend; True stories of military romance; The music of An officer and a gentleman; Gere and Gossett: hand-to-hand combat; photo gallery.
Director, Taylor Hackford.