July 28, 1982 | R | 2h 4min “An Officer and a Gentleman” was the fourth highest grossing film in 1982, after “E.T. The Extraterrestrial,” “Rocky III,” and “On Golden Pond.” I saw it at least five times. It set the stage for “Pretty Woman” eight years later. Both “An Officer and a Gentleman” and “Pretty Woman” contain the Cinderella and antihero archetypes, but in “An Officer and a Gentleman,” the antihero story dominates, and the Cinderella story is secondary. In “Pretty Woman,” it’s the other way around. The antihero is played by Richard Gere in both movies; the Cinderellas are played by Debra Winger and Julia Roberts, respectively. What’s an antihero? They don’t have traditionally heroic qualities, but ones more befitting villains, such as greed and dishonesty. And their struggles to rectify themselves of inner moral corruption, and to recognize the delineation between right and wrong, make them relatable to audiences. In “Star …