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Volunteers (1985)
Directed by Nicholas Meyer
“Ready or not, here they come.”
Comedy · 1h 47m
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?
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
J
Jacqueline Evans
Aunt Eunice
P
Pamela Gual
Tammy
Crew
- Director
- Nicholas Meyer
- Screenplay
- David Isaacs, Ken Levine
- Director of Photography
- Ric Waite
- Original Music Composer
- James Horner
- Editor
- Steve Polivka, Ronald Roose
- Producer
- Richard Shepherd, Walter F. Parkes
Details
- Release date
- 1985-08-16
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- HBO Films, Silver Screen Partners
- Budget
- $10,000,000
- Box office
- $19,875,740