Volunteers (1985)
Ready or not, here they come.
107 min
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?
- Release date
- August 16, 1985
- Country of origin
- United States, Australia
- Budget
- $10,000,000
- Box office
- $19,875,740
Trailer
Cast
- Tom Hanks as Lawrence Bourne III
- John Candy as Tom Tuttle from Tacoma
- Rita Wilson as Beth Wexler
- Tim Thomerson as John Reynolds
- Gedde Watanabe as At Toon
- George Plimpton as Lawrence Bourne Jr.
- Ernest Harada as Chung Mee
- Allan Arbus as Albert Bardenaro
- Xander Berkeley as Kent Sutcliffe
- Ji-Tu Cumbuka as Cicero
Crew
- Nicholas Meyer · Director
- Ken Levine · Writer
- David Isaacs · Writer
- Keith Critchlow · Writer
- Walter F. Parkes · Producer
- Richard Shepherd · Producer
- James Horner · Composer
- Ric Waite · Cinematographer
- Steve Polivka · Editor
- Ronald Roose · Editor
- Penny Ellers · Casting director
- Joyce Robinson · Casting director
- James L. Schoppe · Production designer