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Volunteers is a 1985 American comedy film directed by Nicholas Meyer and starring Tom Hanks and John Candy . Plot. Lawrence Bourne III is a spoiled kid who just graduated from Yale, Class of 1962, with a $28,000 gambling debt.
Aug 16, 1985 · Volunteers: Directed by Nicholas Meyer. With Tom Hanks, John Candy, Rita Wilson, Tim Thomerson. 1962, after Yale graduation, womanizing Lawrence flees a gambling debt that his rich dad won't pay. He takes his roomie's place as Peace Corps Volunteer in Thai Golden Triangle with 2 other PCVs.
Hoping to avoid gambling debts, rich playboy Lawrence Bourne (Tom Hanks) stows away on a plane of Peace Corps volunteers set for Thailand. Once aboard, he meets the outrageously affable Tom...
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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.
A cheerfully self-centered rich kid (Tom Hanks) heads to back-country Thailand to escape his huge gambling debts in this comedy set in the '60s.
1962, after Yale graduation, womanizing Lawrence flees a gambling debt that his rich dad won't pay. He takes his roomie's place as Peace Corps Volunteer in Thai Golden Triangle with 2 other PCVs. Will he survive 2 years?
Jul 29, 2004 · A snobby, rich young man from the Northeast lands into trouble with his gambling debts, and in order to escape, he ends up in the Peace Corps in Thailand where he meets some genuinely devoted American volunteers.
Watch free anytime, anywhere, on almost any device. Where to watch Volunteers (1985) starring Tom Hanks, John Candy, Rita Wilson and directed by Nicholas Meyer.
Aug 16, 1985 · Lawrence Bourne III (Tom Hanks) is an upper-class heel who has to flee the country to escape his gambling debts and so sneaks aboard an airplane filled with Peace Corps volunteers en route to Thailand. On the plane he is befriended by well-meaning Peace Corps worker Tom Tuttle (John Candy).
Peace Corps volunteers spread American goodwill--and the secrets of sanitation--all over the world. But one cheerfully self-centered rich kid (Tom Hanks) has come to back-country Thailand for another reason: to escape his huge gambling debts.
