Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
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.
- navy
- love of one's life
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Richard Gere
Zack Mayo
Debra Winger
Paula Pokrifki
Louis Gossett Jr.
Sergeant Emil Foley
David Keith
Sid Worley
- Robert Loggia — Byron Mayo
- Lisa Blount — Lynette Pomeroy
- Lisa Eilbacher — Casey Seeger
- Harold Sylvester — Perryman
- David Caruso — Topper Daniels
- Grace Zabriskie — Esther Pokrifiki
- Tony Plana — Emiliano Della Serra
- Victor French — Joe Pokrifki
- Tommy Petersen — Young Zack
- Mara Scott-Wood — Bunny
- David Greenfield — Schneider
- Directed
- Taylor Hackford
- Written
- Douglas Day Stewart
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 1,231 ratings
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures, Lorimar Motion Pictures
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