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

Lawrence Whatley Bourne III

Tom Hanks

Tom Tuttle

John Candy

Beth Wexler

Rita Wilson

John Reynolds

Tim Thomerson

At Toon

Gedde Watanabe

Lawrence Bourne Jr.

George Plimpton

Chung Mee

Ernest Harada

Albert Bardenaro

Allan Arbus

Kent Sutcliffe

Xander Berkeley

Cicero

Ji-Tu Cumbuka

Aunt Eunice

Jacqueline Evans

Tammy

Pamela Gual

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