Volunteers Trailer

Lawrence Bourne III (Tom Hanks), is a spoiled rich kid who just graduated from Yale ("A College") Class of 1962; with a $28,000 gambling debt. After his father, Lawrence Bourne Jr. (George Plimpton), refuses to pay his son's debt, Lawrence escapes his angry creditors by trading places with his college roommate Kent (Xander Berkeley) and jumping on a Peace Corps flight to Thailand.

Directed by
Nicholas Meyer

Produced by
Walter F. Parkes
Richard Shepherd

Written by
Keith F. Critchlow
David Isaacs
Ken Levine

Starring
Tom Hanks
John Candy

Music by
James Horner

Distributed by
TriStar Pictures

Release dates
August 16, 1985

Running time
107 min.

Country
USA

Language
English

Budget
$25 million

Box office
$19,875,740