( May 2012) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. He finds Paula at the factory and declares his love to her, then picks her up and walks out with her in his arms to the applause of her colleagues, including her mother and Lynette. Zack thanks Foley for not giving up on him and says he would have never have made it without him. Zack completes the training and is commissioned as an officer following tradition, he receives his first salute from Foley in exchange for a US silver dollar. They fight, with Zack landing several blows on a surprised Foley before the latter ends the fight and tells Zack he can quit if he wants. Zack blames himself and heads back to base, intending to quit, but Foley will not let him. Zack and Paula go looking for Sid and discover that he has hanged himself. After Sid leaves, Zack shows up with Paula looking for Sid after Lynette recaps the conversation with Sid, Zack accuses her of making up the pregnancy, which she denies. He goes to Lynette's house to propose marriage but she rejects him, telling him she wants to marry a naval aviator, and that she got her period and so is not pregnant. Meanwhile, Lynette has been dropping hints to Sid that she may be pregnant with his child.Īfter having a severe anxiety attack during a high-altitude simulation in a pressure chamber, Sid quits. Zack attends a dinner with Sid and his parents and learns that Sid has a long-time girlfriend who was his late brother's girlfriend, and whom he is planning to marry once he receives his commission. During his last obstacle-course run, Zack has a chance to break the course record, but instead stops to encourage his teammate, Casey Seeger, to succeed. The next weekend, Zack learns that Paula’s real father, an officer candidate like him, got Paula’s mother pregnant and refused to marry her. I've got nobody." Satisfied that Zack has come to a crucial self-realization, Foley relents. Zack breaks down, telling Foley "I've got nowhere else to go. Zack refuses, and Foley tells him he will expel him. Foley believes Zack lacks motivation and is not a team player, and when he discovers Zack has been selling pre-shined shoes and belt buckles, he punishes Zack with an entire weekend of hazing to make him quit the program. Zack begins a relationship with Paula, while Sid dates Lynette.įoley runs the program mercilessly, and Recruit Topper Daniels drops out after nearly drowning during a ditching-escape exercise. Zack and fellow candidate Sid Worley meet two local factory workers, Paula Pokrifki and Lynette Pomeroy, at a Navy Ball. Upon arrival at AOCS, Zack and his classmates are warned by their drill instructor, Marine Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley, about "Puget Sound Debs", local girls who dream of marrying a Naval Aviator and who will feign pregnancy or stop using birth control to trap a man. Naval Base Subic Bay and is now determined-despite his father's disapproval-to become a Navy pilot. After his mother's suicide while he was a child, he moved to the Philippines to live with his father, Byron, a US Navy Boatswain's Mate First Class, a drunk, and a womanizer. Zachary "Zack" Mayo is preparing to report to Aviation Officer Candidate School (AOCS) following college graduation. It also was a financial success, grossing $190 million against a $6 million or $7 million budget. It was well-received by critics, with a number calling it the best film of 1982. The film was commercially released in the U.S.
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Uniform Code of Military Justice's charge of " conduct unbecoming an Officer and a Gentleman" (from 1860). Its title is an old expression from the Royal Navy and later from the U.S. The film was written by Douglas Day Stewart and directed by Taylor Hackford. While Zack meets his first true girlfriend during his training, a young "townie" named Paula (Winger), he also comes into conflict with the hard-driving Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley (Gossett Jr.) training his class. It tells the story of Zack Mayo (Gere), a United States Navy Aviation Officer Candidate who is beginning his training at Aviation Officer Candidate School. won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film, making him the first black male to do so. An Officer and a Gentleman is a 1982 American romantic drama film starring Richard Gere, Debra Winger, and Louis Gossett Jr.
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