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Volunteers (1985)
Ready or not, here they come.
107 minRComedy
TMDb5.5/10185 votes
IMDb5.5/1010,763 votes
Rotten Tomatoes67%
Metacritic55/100
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?
Country: United States
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Box office: $19,875,740
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
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Jacqueline Evans
Aunt Eunice
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Pamela Gual
Tammy
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Chick Hearn
Announcer
Virginia Kiser
Evelyn Bourne
Keywords
Plot:naivetycentral intelligence agency (cia)gamblingbridgespoiled childproduct placementwealthwealthydebtbrainwashingcommunism
Time:cold war
Place:asiavillagethailandyale university
