Loner Zack Mayo (Richard Gere) enters Officer Candidate School to become a Navy pilot and in 13 weeks he learns the importance of discipline, love, teamwork, and friendship. Gossett is the drill instructor who guides his growth.

Nick Parker, was blinded by an explosion in Vietnam, but rescued and trained to be a master swordsman by sympathetic villagers. Twenty years later he has become a drifter. He visits the family of Frank Devereaux (O'Quinn) an old Army buddy, now a chemist. There he foils an attempt by gangsters to kidnap the family in order to force Frank to produce designer drugs. Frank, it seems, has fallen into debt to the mob while gambling at a Reno casino. Nick...

The Thing: In the winter of 1982, a 12-man research team, at a remote Antarctic research station, discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Soon unfrozen, the form-changing alien wreaks havoc, creates terror and takes on the appearance of those it kills. Prince of darkness: A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister and inadvertently unleash a strange liquid. As the substance begins to turn their co-workers...