Volunteers

Name: Volunteers
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1985
Duration: 107 min
Rating: 5.546

1985 · 107 min

Comedy

★ 5.5

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Trailer

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?

Crew

Director Nicholas Meyer
Screenplay David Isaacs
Screenplay Ken Levine
Story Keith Critchlow
Director of Photography Ric Waite

Cast

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
J
Jacqueline Evans
Aunt Eunice
P
Pamela Gual
Tammy

Crew

Director — Nicholas Meyer
Screenplay — David Isaacs
Screenplay — Ken Levine
Story — Keith Critchlow
Director of Photography — Ric Waite

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