Volunteers
Ready or not, here they come.
1985 | 107m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Nicholas Meyer |
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| Writer: | Ken Levine, Keith Critchlow, David Isaacs |
| Staring: |
| 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: | Aug 16, 1985 |
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| Director: | Nicholas Meyer |
| Writer: | Ken Levine, Keith Critchlow, David Isaacs |
| Genres: | Comedy |
| Keywords | gambling, central intelligence agency (cia), asia, cold war, naivety, thailand, bridge, product placement, village, spoiled child, yale university, wealth, wealthy, debt, brainwashing, communism |
| Production Companies | Silver Screen Partners, HBO Films |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $19,875,740
Budget: $10,000,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 05, 2026 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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 the Stewardess |
| Chick Hearn | Announcer |
| Virginia Kiser | Evelyn Bourne |
| Clyde Kusatsu | Souvanna |
| Jude Mussetter | Bootsy Winder |
| Carlos Romano | Beatty |
| Duncan Ross | Noble |
| Shakti Chen | Lucille |
| Professor Toru Tanaka | Sumo Guard |
| Guillermo Río | Sumo Guard |
| Lonnie Wun | Sumo Guard |
| Harry Yorku | Al Pe |
| Fidel Castro | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Doris Day | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| John Glenn | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Rock Hudson | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| John F. Kennedy | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Nikita Khrushchev | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Mao Zedong | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Marilyn Monroe | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Jacqueline Kennedy | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| John XXIII. | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Ed Sullivan | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Allan A. Apone | Makeup Designer |
| Wylie Stateman | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Nicholas Meyer | Director |
| Ken Levine | Screenplay |
| Robert Easton | Dialect Coach |
| BJ Davis | Stunt Coordinator |
| Kane Hodder | Stunts |
| Keith Critchlow | Story |
| Steve Polivka | Editor |
| Joyce Robinson | Casting |
| Esperanza Gómez | Hairstylist |
| Ric Waite | Director of Photography |
| Gary Alexander | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Leo J. Napolitano | Camera Operator |
| Else Blangsted | Music Editor |
| Elliott Koretz | Sound Editor |
| David Isaacs | Screenplay |
| Penny Ellers | Casting |
| José Rodríguez Granada | Art Direction |
| Raúl Esquivel | Wigmaker |
| Josefina Mendoza | Hairstylist |
| Robert Glass | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Heriberto Cárdenas | Cableman |
| Randy Kelley | Sound Editor |
| Stan Gilbert | ADR Editor |
| Joe Gilbert | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Laurencio Cordero | Special Effects Coordinator |
| Brian Ralph | Negative Cutter |
| Denny Arnold | Stunts |
| John Barrett | Stunts |
| Alan Marcus | Stunts |
| Claude King | Other |
| Ronald Roose | Editor |
| James L. Schoppe | Production Design |
| Del Armstrong | Makeup Supervisor |
| Alberto López | Makeup Artist |
| Chris Jenkins | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Elie Cohn | First Assistant Director |
| Claude Hitchcock | Sound Mixer |
| Jim Weidman | Music Editor |
| Terry Lynn Allen | Sound Editor |
| Dan M. Rich | Sound Editor |
| Lorna Anderson | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Ray Mercer Jr. | Property Master |
| Alfredo Ruvalcaba | Still Photographer |
| Rob King | Stunts |
| Paul Staples | Stunts |
| Carl Boles | Gaffer |
| Jorge Sainz | Assistant Art Director |
| Salvador 'Apache' Serrano | Dolly Grip |
| Wayne King Sr. | Stunts |
| Ellie Mite | Stunts |
| Dianne L. Wilson | Stunts |
| Mark P. Stoeckinger | ADR Editor |
| James Horner | Original Music Composer |
| Lon Bender | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Daniel Cordero | Special Effects |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Walter F. Parkes | Producer |
| Theodore R. Parvin | Associate Producer |
| Richard Shepherd | Producer |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 15 | 34 | 7 |
| 2024 | 5 | 17 | 35 | 9 |
| 2024 | 6 | 12 | 24 | 7 |
| 2024 | 7 | 13 | 29 | 7 |
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| 2025 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2025 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| 2026 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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