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Volunteers

Aug 16, 1985
1h 47m
★ 5.5

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?

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

HBO Films
Silver Screen Partners

Volunteers Trailers

Cast

Tom Hanks

Lawrence Whatley Bourne III

Tom Hanks

John Candy

Tom Tuttle

John Candy

Rita Wilson

Beth Wexler

Rita Wilson

Tim Thomerson

John Reynolds

Tim Thomerson

Gedde Watanabe

At Toon

Gedde Watanabe

George Plimpton

Lawrence Bourne Jr.

George Plimpton

Ernest Harada

Chung Mee

Ernest Harada

Allan Arbus

Albert Bardenaro

Allan Arbus

Xander Berkeley

Kent Sutcliffe

Xander Berkeley

Ji-Tu Cumbuka

Cicero

Ji-Tu Cumbuka

Jacqueline Evans

Aunt Eunice

Jacqueline Evans

Pamela Gual

Tammy

Pamela Gual

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