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...situation is a classic. Zack Mayo (How do they think up names like that?) is the son of a Navy enlisted man, whose daddy is seen elaborately not loving him in the prologue. To get back at him, Zack (Richard Gere) must become, well, "an officer and a gentleman." He enrolls in Naval Aviation Officer Candidate School, a form of organized flagellation that we are led to believe makes all other brands of basic training look like the vicar's lawn party. Underneath Zack's sullen exterior, the discerning eye can detect "the right stuff," as it were...
...obvious and unoriginal as that, An Officer and a Gentleman still works. The tension and yearnings pent up inside of aspiring Navy pilot Zack Mayo (Richard Gere) are vivid and believable. You may think you're too sophisticated for an underdog-gets-crewcut-and-makes-good saga, but wait until Mayo is face down in the mud, "doin' 50" for that bastard Sergeant Foley. You'll suddenly find you own tightly clenched fist pounding the arm rest with every rep. "Yes SIR! I'd LIKE to do some more push...
These shorcomings aside. Hackford's rendition of Douglas Day Stewart's story is tasteful and touching. Zack Mayo never would have thought he'd make it into a cockpit neither would his father nor Foley. But he does, and An Officer and a Gentleman will leave you satisfied and humming quietly to yourself...
Claire loves Zack and Zack loves Claire. Her career in television, his as a doctor are both going nicely, and they have just bought this adorable house (a little too expensive, but why not?) where they can listen to Gilbert and Sullivan records and maybe start to have little Claires and Zacks who will be as squeaky-nice and handsomely boring as they...
...what's this? Zack (Michael Ontkean) seems to be cruising the gay bars, looking wistful. Is it possible that what looked like just another untrue domestic romance is going to turn into a problem picture? Not to worry. The people who made this picture are not interested in tragedy or even human messiness. They are determined to prove not only that "nice boys do," but that homosexuals can be as well-adjusted and as middle class as anyone else. Thus Zack, after leaving Claire (Kate Jackson) for a muscular writer, eventually settles down with a lawyer. They sit around...