An Officer and a Gentlemen

I loved this 1982 epic love story!!! Richard Gere and Debra Winger are the main characters in this movie. Richard Gere who plays Zack Mayo an only child born to a mother in love with a soldier who never returns so she commits suicide and Debra Winger who plays Paula Pokrifki a child of many whos mother was in love with a solider who would never marry her. They are one in the same. It follows their story as Zack goes through Aviation school while in a small town where Paula lives. Zack makes a bestfriend in the academy and they pal around throught the whole movie until a tragic event. There are heartbreaking moments and moments of joy throughout the whole movie. Its a must see. I don't want to give to much away you'll just have to see it for yourself. This Navy town romance is a real classic another one I am going to watch again and again.



Trivia

Originally, Country music singer John Denver signed on to play Zack Mayo. But a casting process eventually involved Jeff Bridges, John Travolta, Christopher Reeve, and Richard Gere. Gere eventually beat out all the other actors for the part.

The role of Paula was originally given to Sigourney Weaver, then to Anjelica Huston and later to Jennifer Jason Leigh, who dropped out to do Fast Times at Ridgemont High instead. Eventually, Debra Winger replaced Leigh for the role of Paula. Rebecca de Mornay, Meg Ryan, and Geena Davis, all virtually unknowns at the time, auditioned for the role of Paula before losing out to Winger.


Quotes
Foley: You can forget it! You're out!
Mayo: Don't you do it! Don't! You... I got nowhere else to go! I got nowhere else to g... I got nothin' else.

When Harry Met Sally

I have watched parts of this movie many many times but have never watched it all the way through untill tonight. I Loved it . Well I didnt watch the begining very closly but I've seen it a hundred times. What an awesome love story. I love how it follows them through their lives!! Meg Ryan is so tight laced but you cant help but love her . Billy Crystal is a dog, but towards the end of this movie you are really rooting for them to work it out! This movie proves that friends make better relationships !! I will be watching this one again and again. It will be on my list of comfort movies.


Quotes

Harry Burns: I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

Harry Burns: With whom did you have this great sex?
Sally Albright: I'm not going to tell you that.
Harry Burns: Fine, don't tell me.
Sally Albright: Shel Gordon.
Harry Burns: Shel? Sheldon? No, no, you did not have great sex with Sheldon.
Sally Albright: I did too.
Harry Burns: No you didn't. A Sheldon can do your income taxes, if you need a root canal, Sheldon's your man... but humpin' and pumpin' is not Sheldon's strong suit. It's the name. 'Do it to me Sheldon, you're an animal Sheldon, ride me big Shel-don.' Doesn't work.

Sally Albright: But I'd like the pie heated and I don't want the ice cream on top, I want it on the side, and I'd like strawberry instead of vanilla if you have it, if not then no ice cream just whipped cream but only if it's real; if it's out of the can then nothing.
Waitress: Not even the pie?
Sally Albright: No, I want the pie, but then not heated.