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Volunteers
★ 5.5/10•1985•1h 47m•R•Comedy

Ready or not, here they come.

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?

Nicholas Meyer · Director

David Isaacs · Screenplay

Ken Levine · Screenplay

StatusReleased
Runtime1h 47m
LanguageEN
Release DateAug 16, 1985
Budget$10,000,000
Revenue$19,875,740

Actors

Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks

Lawrence Whatley Bourne III

John Candy

John Candy

Tom Tuttle

Rita Wilson

Rita Wilson

Beth Wexler

Tim Thomerson

Tim Thomerson

John Reynolds

Gedde Watanabe

Gedde Watanabe

At Toon

George Plimpton

George Plimpton

Lawrence Bourne Jr.

Ernest Harada

Ernest Harada

Chung Mee

Allan Arbus

Allan Arbus

Albert Bardenaro

Xander Berkeley

Xander Berkeley

Kent Sutcliffe

Ji-Tu Cumbuka

Ji-Tu Cumbuka

Cicero

Jacqueline Evans

Aunt Eunice

Pamela Gual

Tammy

Chick Hearn

Chick Hearn

Announcer

Virginia Kiser

Virginia Kiser

Evelyn Bourne

Clyde Kusatsu

Clyde Kusatsu

Souvanna

Jude Mussetter

Bootsy Winder

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