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Avg. Critic Score: 75 out of 100 Generally favorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
15 Iffy for 15+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    An Officer and a Gentleman is the best movie about love that I've seen in a long time. Read full review

  • 90
    Variety |

    An Officer and a Gentleman deserves a 21-gun salute, maybe 42. Rarely does a film come along with so many finely-drawn characters to care about. Read full review

  • 90
    The New York Times | Janet Maslin

    Undeniably, there's an element of corniness to this. But that doesn't keep An Officer and a Gentleman from being a first-rate movie - a beautifully acted, thoroughly involving romance. Read full review

  • 88
    TV Guide |

    The performances are uniformly strong, with Gere offering some of his best work - though it pales in comparison with Gossett's tour de force as the tough, principled Sgt. Foley. Read full review

  • 80
    Chicago Reader | Dave Kehr

    An awesomely, stiflingly professional piece of work, with a fleet, superficial visual style, perfectly placed climaxes, and a screenplay (by Douglas Day Stewart) that doesn't waste a single character or situation - everything is functional, and nothing but functional. Read full review

  • 63
    The Globe and Mail (Toronto) | Rick Groen

    From its title on down, An Officer and a Gentleman (at the Plaza) is both a thoroughly rousing crowd-pleaser and a shamelessly manipulative banner-waver, a homage to the never-practiced ethics of a non-existent era. [28 Jul 1982] Read full review

  • 50
    Boston Globe |

    An Officer and a Gentleman has so many echoes that it never finds its own voice. [29 Jul 1982] Read full review

  • 40
    Time | Richard Schickel

    The result is a Big Mac of a movie, junk food that somehow reaches the chortling soul. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 15+ So-so coming-of-age military flick; not for kids.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this film contains some brief nudity (female breasts and buttocks, male buttocks) and explicit sexual dialogue. The military training sequences involve homophobic and racial slurs as well as fistfights. Several of the female characters are depicted as trying to get soldiers to impregnate them. Characters drink heavily. In addition, one of the main characters commits suicide.
  • Families can talk about the relationships that Zack has with his father and with Sgt. Foley. Who do you think he looked up to more? Is Zack treated fairly by Sgt. Foley? Families could talk about the depiction of female characters in the movie. How are Paula, Lynette, and Seeger portrayed differently? Why did Seeger have a hard time in the military? How is she different than both Paula and Lynette?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Not an issue
What to watch for
  • violence false3 Violence: Suicide is a main storyline and there are several scenes depicting graphic fighting in the context of military training.
  • sex false5 Sex: Brief nudity (male and female), much graphic dialogue related to sex.
  • language false5 Language: Racial and ethnic slurs, homophobic comments, a whole lot of cursing.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: A lot of drinking, but there is discussion of consequences.
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