Volunteers (1985)
"Ready or not, here they come."
ThumbScore
👍 67%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 58%
(RT: 58%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
George Plimpton as Lawrence Bourne Jr.
Ernest Harada as Chung Mee
Allan Arbus as Albert Bardenaro
Is Volunteers good?
It's divisive. 67% audience score, estimated from 189 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 58%.
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? Wikipedia ↗
