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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 78263
Released: February 3, 2009 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 02/03/2009 Run time: 124 minutes Rating: R
Description of An Officer and a Gentleman: I Love the 80's Edition:
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
An Officer and a Gentleman: I Love the 80's Edition Reviews:
Up where it belongs!!!!! Great Movie 
2009-09-24 - 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
2009-07-31 - 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 
2009-05-18 - 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)
2009-04-21 - 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'
An Officer and A Gentleman(Special Collectors Edition)
2009-04-16 - Richard Gere and Debra Winger play excellent roles in this romance and drama movie. Definitely a nice addition to my collection.
