An Officer and a
Gentleman (1982)
Directed by Taylor
Hackford this film stars Richard Gere, Debra Winger, Louis Gossett
Jr. and David Keith. A young man from the school of hard knocks
starts officer training in the US Navy and falls in love with a girl
that works in a factory.
At the time of release
this film was a big hit but now it seems like a fairly standard case
of romantic cheese meets 80s militaristic cheese. The plot is fairly
well constructed if slightly cynically hitting all the required
notes, it probably does not help that the end of the film has been
endlessly parodied by this point. There are some decent performances
but to me this film does feel very much dated and at times verging on
the sillier side of cheese.
3/5
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