Film
Volunteers
1985 · 1h 47m · Comedy
Ready or not, here they come.
- IMDb
- 5.5
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 67%
- Metacritic
- 55
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Overview
After graduating from Yale in 1962, womanizing Lawrence flees a gambling debt that his rich dad won't pay and takes his roomie's place as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Thai Golden Triangle with two other PCVs. Will he survive two years?
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Cast
Tom Hanks
Lawrence Whatley Bourne III
John Candy
Tom Tuttle
Rita Wilson
Beth Wexler
Tim Thomerson
John Reynolds
Gedde Watanabe
At Toon
George Plimpton
Lawrence Bourne Jr.
Ernest Harada
Chung Mee
Allan Arbus
Albert Bardenaro
Xander Berkeley
Kent Sutcliffe
Ji-Tu Cumbuka
Cicero
Jacqueline Evans
Aunt Eunice
Pamela Gual
Tammy
Chick Hearn
Announcer
Virginia Kiser
Evelyn Bourne
Clyde Kusatsu
Souvanna
Jude Mussetter
Bootsy Winder
Crew
- Nicholas MeyerDirector
- David IsaacsScreenplay
- Ken LevineScreenplay
- Keith CritchlowStory
- Richard ShepherdProducer
- Walter F. ParkesProducer
- Ric WaiteDirector of Photography
- James HornerOriginal Music Composer
- Steve PolivkaEditor
- Ronald RooseEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- August 16, 1985
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $10,000,000
- Revenue
- $19,875,740
- Genres
- Comedy
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