
Feature film — 1985
Volunteers (1985)
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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A high-signal pick with 189 votes.
HBO Films / Silver Screen Partners
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Director: Nicholas Meyer
On screen
Cast & crew

Tom Hanks
Lawrence Whatley Bourne III

John Candy
Tom Tuttle

Rita Wilson
Beth Wexler

Tim Thomerson
John Reynolds

Gedde Watanabe
At Toon

George Plimpton
Lawrence Bourne Jr.

Ernest Harada
Chung Mee

Allan Arbus
Albert Bardenaro

Xander Berkeley
Kent Sutcliffe

Ji-Tu Cumbuka
Cicero
Jacqueline Evans
Aunt Eunice
Pamela Gual
Tammy
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