Volunteers

Volunteers (1985)

Ready or not, here they come.

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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  • Release Date: 1985-08-16
  • Runtime: 1h 47min
  • Director: Nicholas Meyer

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    • Trailer

    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

    • Jacqueline Evans

      Aunt Eunice

    • Pamela Gual

      Tammy the Stewardess

    • Chick Hearn

      Announcer

    • Virginia Kiser

      Evelyn Bourne

    • Clyde Kusatsu

      Souvanna

    • Jude Mussetter

      Bootsy Winder

    • Carlos Romano

      Beatty

    • Duncan Ross

      Noble

    • Shakti Chen

      Lucille

    • Professor Toru Tanaka

      Sumo Guard

    • Guillermo Río

      Sumo Guard

    • Lonnie Wun

      Sumo Guard

    • Harry Yorku

      Al Pe

    • Fidel Castro

      Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

    • Doris Day

      Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

    • John Glenn

      Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

    • Rock Hudson

      Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

    • John F. Kennedy

      Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

    • Nikita Khrushchev

      Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

    • Mao Zedong

      Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

    • Marilyn Monroe

      Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

    • Jacqueline Kennedy

      Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

    • John XXIII.

      Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

    • Ed Sullivan

      Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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