Volunteers (1985)
August 16, 1985
Comedy
1h 47m
![Poster for Volunteers](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/35f6DPxoRswSTQickRVGe33i2cL.jpg)
![Backdrop for Volunteers](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w1280/xuwqYwzsgwfr0mk6sBNRy6C8JpK.jpg)
Ready or not, here they come.
After his rich father refuses to pay his debt, compulsive gambler Lawrence Bourne III joins the Peace Corps to evade angry creditors. In Thailand, he is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with the help of 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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Cast & Crew
- Director
- Nicholas Meyer
- Lawrence Whatley Bourne III Tom Hanks
- Tom Tuttle John Candy
- Beth Wexler Rita Wilson
- John Reynolds Tim Thomerson
- At Toon Gedde Watanabe
- Lawrence Bourne Jr. George Plimpton
- Chung Mee Ernest Harada
- Albert Bardenaro Allan Arbus
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Keywords
- naivety
- central intelligence agency (cia)
- gambling
- cold war
- asia
- village
- coca-cola
- thailand
- bridge
- spoiled child
- product placement
- yale university
- wealth
- wealthy
- debt
- brainwashing
- communism