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...basic living expenses, she claims, will amount to some $246,000 a year. Some prominent items: $25,000 for vacations, $12,000 for entertainment, $18,000 for her clothes, another $18,000 to dress Twins Maclean and Zachary, 5, and $3,000 to buy the birthday presents "Mack" and "Zack" are obliged to give their Palm Beach playmates. Peter Pulitzer, athletic and severely good-looking, hopes to convince Circuit Court Judge Carl Harper that Roxanne is a wastrel unfit to raise the boys...
Richard Schickel writes that Zack Mayo (Richard Gere) "emerges as a man worthy of having a few million bucks' worth of F-111." Zack is in the Navy, so he should be flying Navy. Why not give him an F14? The F-111 belongs to the Air Force...
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Richard Schickel wondered how the screenwriter ever thought up such a name as Zack Mayo for the lead character in An Officer and a Gentleman...
...perhaps unnecessary to add that women will cheer and men will weep (and vice versa) when Zack passes all the tests the Navy and the opposite sex can devise and emerges as a man worthy of having a few million bucks' worth of F-111 in his hands, not to mention a lovely bride. Gere and Winger play this nonsense as if neither one of them had ever seen an old-fashioned military romance, and bless their youthful innocence, perhaps they haven't. Director Hackford, however, surely has, since he demonstrates an encyclopedic eye for their clich...