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Feature film — 1985

Volunteers (1985)

5.51h 47mComedy

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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Director: Nicholas Meyer

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Cast & crew

Tom Hanks as Lawrence Whatley Bourne III

Tom Hanks

Lawrence Whatley Bourne III

John Candy as Tom Tuttle

John Candy

Tom Tuttle

Rita Wilson as Beth Wexler

Rita Wilson

Beth Wexler

Tim Thomerson as John Reynolds

Tim Thomerson

John Reynolds

Gedde Watanabe as At Toon

Gedde Watanabe

At Toon

George Plimpton as Lawrence Bourne Jr.

George Plimpton

Lawrence Bourne Jr.

Ernest Harada as Chung Mee

Ernest Harada

Chung Mee

Allan Arbus as Albert Bardenaro

Allan Arbus

Albert Bardenaro

Xander Berkeley as Kent Sutcliffe

Xander Berkeley

Kent Sutcliffe

Ji-Tu Cumbuka as Cicero

Ji-Tu Cumbuka

Cicero

J

Jacqueline Evans

Aunt Eunice

P

Pamela Gual

Tammy

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