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Poster for Volunteers

Volunteers

1985 · 107 min

A breezy, silly culture-clash comedy with broad gags and a smug hero who stumbles into doing good.

Directed by
Nicholas Meyer
Genres
Comedy
Tagline
Ready or not, here they come.
Overview
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?

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Directed by
Nicholas Meyer
Genres
Comedy
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Tone
  • lightstrength 3 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • class
  • identity
  • friendship
  • love
  • redemption
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
Era
period
Audience
teen
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror0
Humour7
Realism5
Romance4
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight3

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Genres
comedy
Directed by
Nicholas Meyer
Written by
David Isaacs, Ken Levine
Starring
Tom Hanks, John Candy, Rita Wilson, Tim Thomerson, Gedde Watanabe, George Plimpton, Ernest Harada, Allan Arbus
Music
James Horner
Cinematography
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Runtime
107 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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