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?

Cast

Tom Hanks

as Lawrence Whatley Bourne III

John Candy

as Tom Tuttle

Rita Wilson

as Beth Wexler

Tim Thomerson

as John Reynolds

Gedde Watanabe

as At Toon

George Plimpton

as Lawrence Bourne Jr.

Ernest Harada

as Chung Mee

Allan Arbus

as Albert Bardenaro

Xander Berkeley

as Kent Sutcliffe

Ji-Tu Cumbuka

as Cicero

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