Your basic basic-training movie, with a hard-nosed, dedicated drill sergeant (played with gusto by Lou Gossett) bulldogging would-be Naval aviators through thirteen weeks of Officer Candidate School. It's something of a puzzle why a movie in this day and age would take so long going over these fundamentals, but then, it seems uniquely able to take a long time over any little thing it sets its mind to (e.g., the patience-taxing discovery of a motel-room suicide). The best guess as to what the moviemakers thought they had to offer is the unparalleled emphasis on the husband-hunters of Puget Sound who prey upon men in uniform, though if this is a new plot wrinkle, the mechanical and sentimental ways it is ironed out certainly seem old: much older, even, than Richard Gere's acting style, which is early John Cassavetes. With Debra Winger and David Keith; directed by Taylor Hackford. (1982) — Duncan Shepherd
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