The flashbacks advance to the present, where Zack has just graduated from college and informs his father he will be going to AOCS. Byron, who hates officers, tells Zack that his dream of becoming an officer is as unrealistic as hoping to become president.
Despite his father's discouragement, Zack is determined to go through with his childhood dreams of becoming a Navy pilot as well as prove to him that he can make it and in the end Byron would have to "salute" Zack. Foley makes it clear that the week program is designed to eliminate OCs who are found to be mentally or physically unfit for commission as an ensign in the U. Foley warns the male candidates about the "Puget Sound Debs"—young women in the area who dream of marrying a Naval Aviator to escape their dull, local lives.
Foley claims they scout the regiment for OCs, and will feign pregnancy or even stop using birth control to become pregnant to trap the men. Zack and Sid meet two local young women—factory workers—at a Navy Ball.
Meanwhile, Daniels drops out of the program after he almost drowns in the dunker crash-escape exercise. Foley rides Zack mercilessly, believing he lacks motivation and is not a team player, though Foley also sees potential in Zack.
When Zack's side business of selling pre-shined shoes and belt buckles is discovered, Foley hazes him for an entire weekend in an attempt to make him DOR "Drop on Request", AOCS term for requesting termination of one's training , but Zack refuses to give in. Foley then tells Zack that he will simply have him thrown out. Upon hearing this, Zack is frightened and breaks down and tells Foley that he has no options in civilian life. Satisfied that Zack has come to a crucial self-realization, Foley lets up on him.
Zack and Paula spend the next weekend together, and she takes him home for dinner to meet her family. Her stepfather behaves strangely, and when Zack asks why, Paula shows him an old picture of her biological father.
He was an AOC who had an affair with her mother but deserted her following his commissioning and refused to marry her when she became pregnant with Paula. Zack is close to breaking the record time for negotiating the obstacle course, but Casey faces disqualification when she cannot climb over the wall. Zack abandons his attempt to break the course record in order to coach Casey over the wall, and she makes it.
Zack attends dinner with Sid and his parents and learns that Sid has a long-time girlfriend back home. Sid plans to marry her after he receives his commission. Meanwhile, Lynette has been dropping hints to Sid that she may be pregnant. Sid agonizes over this possibility, especially when Lynette tells him she will not have an abortion.
After having a severe anxiety attack during a high-altitude simulation in a pressure chamber , Sid realizes he joined the officer training program out of a sense of obligation to his family, especially to the older brother who died as a Naval officer, and he Drops On Request, "DOR"s meaning he voluntarily resigns.
He leaves the base without saying goodbye, so Zack and Paula go out to look for him. Sid goes to Lynette's house and proposes marriage. Disgusted, Lynette turns him down and admits she was never pregnant with his child. She says she thought he understood she wants to marry an aviator, escape from her small town, and live an exciting life overseas with the status of an aviator's wife.
She berates him for dropping out and gives back the engagement ring he bought her. Crushed, Sid goes to the motel where he and Lynette spent his free weekends, asks for their old room, and begins drinking. Zack and Paula arrive at Lynette's shortly after Sid leaves, and ask about Sid's whereabouts. Zack curses Lynette for trying to trick Sid and Paula breaks with her. So, this has been a very emotional experience. Following on from the success of An Officer and a Gentleman when she was just years-old , Debra starred in Terms of Endearment and Shadowlands - both performances earning her Oscar nominations for Best Actress.
In , aged 40, Debra decided to take a break from acting and after Rosanna Arquette released a critically acclaimed documentary called Searching for Debra Winger in , she returned to acting, playing Anne Hathaway's mother in Rachel's Getting Married.
Since then Debra has worked as a teaching fellow at Harvard, has starred in Netflix's hit The Ranch and has worked as an executive producer on documentary films. The year-old actress now lives with her husband, actor Arliss Howard, and their two sons on their working farm in Sullivan County, New York.
Louis Gossett Jr became an overnight star when his role as Sgt. Since then the New York native has been continuously working and boasts an acting resume that spans over five decades in TV, film and stage. Ferman suggests strong messages about morality and determination in the film act as mitigating factors for the 15 rating.
He also describes the film as containing valuable messages for young people of 15 who would be in their final year of compulsory education and also able, if they so wished, to join the armed forces themselves aged The classification of the film for a mid teen audience in America, Australia and New Zealand is also highlighted.
It was released in cinemas in the UK in February More sophisticated thoughts on human relationships form no part of Taylor Hackford's glossy hymn to overcoming a trailer-park background. Richard Gere looks a treat in his pristine white togs, and gives a performance more wooden than a wardrobe, but who cares! Not even the combined talents of Debra Winger and an Oscar-winning Louis Gossett Jr can turn this one into a great movie, but if you're in the mood for a wallow, it's perfect.
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