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Volunteers

Ready or not, here they come.
Ready or not, here they come.
Comedy - 1985
Volunteers
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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?
Director:
,
Nicholas Meyer
Cast:
,
Tom Hanks
,
Xander Berkeley
,
John Candy
,
Rita Wilson
,
Gedde Watanabe
,
Tim Thomerson
,
George Plimpton
,
Allan Arbus
,
Ernest Harada
,
Ji-Tu Cumbuka

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Details

Runtime:
107 min
Release date:
16 Aug 1985
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$10,000,000
Revenue:
$19,875,740
Awards:
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Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
A little melancholy may blend with the laughter ''Volunteers'' draws at the expense of those earnest days when a President was urging people to ask what they could do for their country.
– Walter Goodman,
New York Times,
21 May 2003
rotten:
Promising premise and opening shortly descend into unduly protracted tedium.
– ,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
fresh:
A blase Hanks redeems this string of sexist, racist, comic cliches with winning charm. It's funny.
– ,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
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