Volunteers

Volunteers

1985 · 1 hr 47 min · R

Adventure, Comedy

Directors

Nicholas Meyer

Actors

  • Tom Hanks
  • John Candy
  • Rita Wilson

Credits: 2

Summary

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 Peace Corps Volunteer in Thai Golden Triangle with two other PCVs. Will he survive two years?

More about this movie

Lawrence is a rich kid with a bad accent and a large debt. After his father refuses to help him out, Lawrence escapes his angry debtors by jumping on a Peace Corp flight to Southeast Asia, where is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with American-As-Apple-Pie WSU Grad Tom Tuttle and the beautiful and down-to earth Beth Wexler. What they don't realize is that the bridge is coveted by the U.S. Army, a local Communist force, and a powerful drug lord. Together with the help of At Toon, the only English speaking native, they must fight off the three opposing forces and find out what is right for the villagers, as well as themselves.

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