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Beginning his career with a role in the 1973 stage production of Grease, Richard Gere has always entertained audiences with his lowkey charm and confident acting ability. The Richard Gere Collection includes the films AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN, PRIMAL FEAR, and RUNAWAY BRIDE!AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN: Once in a great while a movie comes along that truly grips and uplifts its audiences. Such a movie is AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN, a timeless tale of romance, friendship and growth. Loner Zack Mayo (Richard Gere) enters Officer Candidate School to become a Navy pilot and in thirteen torturous weeks he learns the importance of discipline, love and friendship. Louis Gossett, Jr. brilliantly plays the tough drill instructor who teaches Zack that no man can make it alone. Despite Gossett's warnings about local girls who get pregnant to catch themselves pilot husbands, Zack eventually learns to love one (Debra Winger). David Keith is memorable as one of Zack's fellow candidates. AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN is a rich and satisfying film that gets richer with repeated viewings. PRIMAL FEAR: Guilty? Innocent? Those questions aren't for high-powered Chicago attorney Martin Vail (Richard Gere) to decide. His job is to defend--especially if a case will put his name in the headlines and further his career. When Vail hears that a penniless altar boy (Edward Norton) is accused of murdering the local archbishop, he snaps up the case, eager for the media spotlight. Little does he know that it will uncover a viper's nest of corruption, pit him against a prosecutor who's his ex-lover, and test all his skills, judgment and even his win-at-any-cost attitude. RUNAWAY BRIDE: "Roberts and Gere confirm their status as an eternal screen team" in this delightful laugh-filled romantic comedy. Roberts plays small-town girl Maggie Carpenter, whose marches down the aisle become a series of near Mrs. when she bolts before saying "I do." Gere is Ike Graham, a cynical, big-city newspaper columnist eager to write a tell-all story about Maggie. But the more Ike finds out about skittish Maggie, the more he finds he's falling in love.
"[Officer] Blue-collar fairy tale for adults...extremely old-fashioned yet utterly enjoyable movie..." Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.com
"[Officer] ...succeeds as both a magical love story and as a convincing portrait of one individual's passage into manhood." Frederic & Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality & Practice
"[Primal] A mesmerizing mystery! An awesome ending!" George Pennacchio, CBS-TV
"[Primal] Gere is excellent. A brilliant debut performance by Edward Norton." Jack Mathews, NewsDay
"[Runaway] Big laughs, great stars!" Joel Siegel, Good Morning America
"[Runaway] Get ready to fall in love with Roberts and Gere all over again." Mike Cidoni, ABC-TV
Editor's Note
This triple feature presents a trio of Hollywood blockbusters starring perennial leading man Richard Gere: the military romance AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN (1982), the courtroom drama PRIMAL FEAR (1996), and the romantic comedy RUNAWAY BRIDE (1999). See individual titles for plot details.
| Features | [All] Dubbed: French | | [All] Interactive Menus | | [All] Original Theatrical Trailer | | [All] Scene Selection | | [Officer, Runaway] Subtitles: English | | [Officer] Audio Commentary By Director Taylor Hackford | | [Officer] Audio: English, French Dolby Digital Mono | | [Primal, Runaway] Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, Dolby Digital Stereo | | [Primal, Runaway] Audio: French Dolby Digital Stereo | | [Primal] Subtitles: Spanish | | [Runaway] Audio Commentary With Director Garry Marshall | | [Runaway] Music Video: Ready To Run By The Dixie Chicks |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 5/1/2007 |
| Catalog ID: 123024 | | UPC: 00097361230245 | | Number of Discs: 3 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1/2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Nominee (2000) | | | MTV Award, Julia Roberts, [Runaway] Best Female Performance | |
Nominee (1997) | | | British Academy Awards, Edward Norton, [Primal] Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role | |
Winner (1997) | | | Golden Globe, Edward Norton, [Primal] Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture | |
Nominee (1997) | | | MTV Award, Edward Norton, [Primal] Best Villain | | | Oscar, Edward Norton, [Primal] Best Actor in a Supporting Role | |
Winner (1984) | | | British Academy Awards, Jack Nitzsche, et. al., [Officer] Best Original Song | |
Winner (1983) | | | Golden Globe, Louis Gossett, Jr., [Officer] Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture | | | Golden Globe, Jack Nitzsche, et. al., [Officer] Best Original Song - Motion Picture | | | Oscar, Louis Gossett, Jr., [Officer] Best Actor in a Supporting Role | | | Oscar, Jack Nitzsche, et. al., [Officer] Best Music, Original Song | |
Winner (1982) | | | Image Award, An Officer and a Gentleman, [Officer] Best Motion Picture | | | Image Award, Louis Gossett, Jr., [Officer] Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture |
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| | Professional Reviews | Reel.com 8 of 10
[Runaway] Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, and director Garry Marshall struck gold in 1990 with Pretty Woman. A fable about the unlikely romance between a hooker and a hard-nosed businessman, Pretty Woman benefited from the sass and sizzle generated by its stars. Further pairings of the two seemed inevitable, but it took nearly a full decade before Roberts and Gere (reunited with Marshall) came together on the big screen again with last summer's romantic comedy, Runaway Bride...Roberts and Gere still share great chemistry. Apparently not vain enough to dye his hair, it is much more apparent in Runaway Bride than it was in Pretty Woman that the now-white-haired Gere is old enough to be Roberts' father. Like Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant in the much more charming Charade, or Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in any of their classic romances, Gere and Roberts seem so well suited that the age difference scarcely matters. - Pam Grady
Chicago Sun-Times 10 of 10
[Officer] "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...The movie's method is essentially to follow its characters through the thirteen weeks, watching them as they change and grow..."An Officer and a Gentleman" takes chances, takes the time to know and develop its characters, and by the time this movie's wonderful last scene comes along, we know exactly what's happening, and why, and it makes us very happy. - Roger Ebert
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