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Volunteers
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Trailer
Volunteers 1985 Trailer HD | Tom Hanks | John Candy | Rita Wilson · plays on YouTube
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Synopsis
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?
- Directed by
- Nicholas Meyer
- Written by
- Keith Critchlow, David Isaacs, Ken Levine
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
Chick Hearn
Announcer
Virginia Kiser
Evelyn Bourne
Clyde Kusatsu
Souvanna
Jude Mussetter
Bootsy Winder
Details
- Released
- August 16, 1985
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Status
- Released
- Language
- EN
- Country
- United States of America
- Budget
- $10,000,000
- Box office
- $19,875,740
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