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Volunteers

5.5Aug 16, 19851h 47mComedy

Directed by Nicholas Meyer

Written by Keith Critchlow, David Isaacs, Ken Levine

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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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

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Jacqueline Evans

Aunt Eunice

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Pamela Gual

Tammy

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