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Volunteers

5.519851h 47mRMovieComedy

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?

DirectorNicholas Meyer
WritersKeith Critchlow·David Isaacs
ProducersWalter F. Parkes·Richard Shepherd

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Cast · Directed by Nicholas Meyer

THTom Hanks
Tom Hanks
Lawrence Whatley Bourne III
JCJohn Candy
John Candy
Tom Tuttle
RWRita Wilson
Rita Wilson
Beth Wexler
TTTim Thomerson
Tim Thomerson
John Reynolds
GWGedde Watanabe
Gedde Watanabe
At Toon
GPGeorge Plimpton
George Plimpton
Lawrence Bourne Jr.
EHErnest Harada
Ernest Harada
Chung Mee
AAAllan Arbus
Allan Arbus
Albert Bardenaro
XBXander Berkeley
Xander Berkeley
Kent Sutcliffe
JCJi-Tu Cumbuka
Ji-Tu Cumbuka
Cicero
JE
Jacqueline Evans
Aunt Eunice
PG
Pamela Gual
Tammy

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