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Volunteers

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?

1985 |1h 47m |  Comedy

Videos

Cast

cast

Tom Hanks

Lawrence Whatley Bourne III

cast

John Candy

Tom Tuttle

cast

Rita Wilson

Beth Wexler

cast

Tim Thomerson

John Reynolds

cast

Gedde Watanabe

At Toon

cast

George Plimpton

Lawrence Bourne Jr.

cast

Ernest Harada

Chung Mee

cast

Allan Arbus

Albert Bardenaro

cast

Xander Berkeley

Kent Sutcliffe

cast

Ji-Tu Cumbuka

Cicero

cast

Chick Hearn

Announcer

cast

Virginia Kiser

Evelyn Bourne

cast

Clyde Kusatsu

Souvanna

cast

Shakti Chen

Lucille

cast

Harry Yorku

Al Pe

cast

Fidel Castro

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

cast

Doris Day

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

cast

Rock Hudson

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

cast

John F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

cast

Nikita Khrushchev

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

cast

Mao Zedong

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

cast

Marilyn Monroe

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

cast

Jacqueline Kennedy

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

cast

John XXIII.

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

cast

Ed Sullivan

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

More Details

Status

Released

Language

English

Budget

$10,000,000.00

Revenue

$19,875,740.00