The read
Every source lands within 8 points of the others, across 1,200 audience votes. Scores higher than 77% of the 1,406 1980s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
Zack Mayo is an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he arrives at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul of abrasive, no-nonsense drill Sergeant Emil Foley. Mayo is an excellent cadet, but a little cold around the heart, so Foley rides him mercilessly, sensing that the young man would be prime officer material if he weren't so self-involved. Zack's affair with a working girl is likewise compromised by his unwillingness to give of himself.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes79%
Metacritic75/100
1,238 audience votes
Key crew
- Taylor HackfordDirector
- Jack NitzscheOriginal Music Composer
- Douglas Day StewartWriter
Cast
- Richard GereZack Mayo
- Debra WingerPaula Pokrifki
- Louis Gossett Jr.Sergeant Emil Foley
- David KeithSid Worley
- Robert LoggiaByron Mayo
- Lisa BlountLynette Pomeroy
- Lisa EilbacherCasey Seeger
- Harold SylvesterPerryman
- David CarusoTopper Daniels
- Grace ZabriskieEsther Pokrifiki
- Tony PlanaEmiliano Della Serra
- Victor FrenchJoe Pokrifki
Stills
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