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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 4425
Released: May 1, 2007 |
| Our Price: $6.87 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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.
Description of An Officer and a Gentleman (Special Collector'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 (Special Collector'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.
