3.5/4  Made Gere a House Hold Name..
I was amazed to see the low ratings on this recent classic movie by Taylor Hackford. It brought forward young actors (Gere, Winger, Keith, Caruso) and older ones- Lou Gossett Jr.- with truly outstanding performances in an initially unknown... (read full)

3/4  See It
I do not understand why Louis Gossett Jr. wasn't nominated for a Best Supp. Actor Oscar. He makes you dislike him but somehow cheer for him. I would have love to see a movie based on just his character. The movie shows how much a lie can e... (read full)

2.5/4  An Officer and a Gentleman Quick Review
A pretty good romance is distinctly 80s in tone. Worth watching if you like romantic comedies as its a bit better than most.

5/5 Up where it belongs!!!!! Great Movie
  by
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.

5/5 Works on every level
  by One-Line Film Reviews (Easton, MD)
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

4/5 Could have been tragic and it was just romantic
  by Jacques COULARDEAU (OLLIERGUES France)
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


4/5 An Office and a Gentlman (Special Collector's Edition)
  by S. Karunaratne (Sydney, Australia)
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'

5/5 An Officer and A Gentleman(Special Collectors Edition)
  by Myra Elaine Jones (Oroville,WA USA)
Richard Gere and Debra Winger play excellent roles in this romance and drama movie. Definitely a nice addition to my collection.