Volunteers (1985)

08/16/1985 (US) • 1h 47m

Comedy

Ready or not, here they come.

Overview

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?

Top Billed Cast

Tom Hanks

Lawrence Whatley Bourne III

John Candy

Tom Tuttle

Rita Wilson

Beth Wexler

Tim Thomerson

John Reynolds

George Plimpton

Lawrence Bourne Jr.

Ernest Harada

Chung Mee

Allan Arbus

Albert Bardenaro

Xander Berkeley

Kent Sutcliffe


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$10,000,000.00

Revenue

$19,875,740.00

Keywords

naivety

central intelligence agency (cia)

gambling

cold war

asia

village

thailand

bridge

spoiled child

product placement

yale university

wealth

wealthy

debt

brainwashing

communism

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