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Volunteers (1985)

Overview

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?

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Content warning
naivetycold warbrainwashingcentral intelligence agency (cia)villagecommunismgamblingwealthasiabridge+5 more
Nicholas Meyer

Director

Nicholas Meyer

ReleasedAug 16, 1985
Runtime1h 47m
StatusReleased
Budget$10M·Revenue$19.9M
HBO Films
Silver Screen Partners

Top Cast

Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks

Lawrence Whatley Bourne III

John Candy

John Candy

Tom Tuttle

Rita Wilson

Rita Wilson

Beth Wexler

Tim Thomerson

Tim Thomerson

John Reynolds

Gedde Watanabe

Gedde Watanabe

At Toon

George Plimpton

George Plimpton

Lawrence Bourne Jr.

Ernest Harada

Ernest Harada

Chung Mee

Allan Arbus

Allan Arbus

Albert Bardenaro

Xander Berkeley

Xander Berkeley

Kent Sutcliffe

Ji-Tu Cumbuka

Ji-Tu Cumbuka

Cicero

Virginia Kiser

Virginia Kiser

Evelyn Bourne

Clyde Kusatsu

Clyde Kusatsu

Souvanna

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Volunteers 1985 Trailer HD | Tom Hanks | John Candy | Rita Wilson

Volunteers 1985 Trailer HD | Tom Hanks | John Candy | Rita Wilson

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