Volunteers (1985)
Ready or not, here they come.
1985 · R · 1h 47m · Comedy
Genres: Comedy
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?
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Writers: Keith Critchlow, David Isaacs, Ken Levine
Music by: James Horner
Cinematography: Ric Waite
Editor: Steve Polivka, Ronald Roose
Box office: $20M · Budget: $10M · Rated 5.5/10 by 186 viewers
Cast
Tom Hanks as Lawrence Whatley Bourne IIIJohn Candy as Tom TuttleRita Wilson as Beth WexlerTim Thomerson as John ReynoldsGedde Watanabe as At ToonGeorge Plimpton as Lawrence Bourne Jr.Ernest Harada as Chung MeeAllan Arbus as Albert BardenaroXander Berkeley as Kent SutcliffeJi-Tu Cumbuka as CiceroJacqueline Evans as Aunt EunicePamela Gual as TammyMore like this
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