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Volunteers

5.5 107 mins Comedy   1985
TriStar Pictures  
Director(s): Nicholas Meyer

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.

Casts of Volunteers

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

Jacqueline Evans

as Aunt Eunice

Pamela Gual

as Tammy the Stewardess

Chick Hearn

as Announcer

Virginia Kiser

as Evelyn Bourne

Clyde Kusatsu

as Souvanna

Jude Mussetter

as Bootsy Winder

Carlos Romano

as Beatty

Duncan Ross

as Noble

Shakti Chen

as Lucille

Professor Toru Tanaka

as Sumo Guard

Guillermo Río

as Sumo Guard

Lonnie Wun

as Sumo Guard

Harry Yorku

as Al Pe

Doris Day

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Rock Hudson

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Marilyn Monroe

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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