“An Officer and a Gentleman is the best movie about love that I’ve seen in a long time. Maybe that’s because it’s not about ‘love’ as a Hollywood concept, but about love as growth, as learning to accept other people for who and what they are.
There’s romance in this movie, all right, and some unusually erotic sex, but what makes the film so special is that the sex and everything else is presented within the context of its characters finding out who they are, what they stand for and what they will not stand for.”