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- Volunteers is a collection of one-liners, mostly good, wrapped around an undeveloped story, generally dull. Despite its frequent glimmers of intelligence, it's an unsatisfactory comedy that yawns to a close.
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Volunteers is a 1985 American comedy film directed by Nicholas Meyer and starring Tom Hanks and John Candy. Plot. [edit] Lawrence Bourne III is a spoiled kid who just graduated from Yale, Class of 1962, with a $28,000 gambling debt.
Volunteers Reviews. Hanks is excellent and has a way with funny lines that marks him as one of the better droll comic actors, if given the right material. Here, writers Ken Levine and David...
Volunteers is a consistently underrated movie. I usually agree with the typical video guide reviews, but I fall out of bed on this one. Volunteers is a very funny, well written, well acted film.
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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Volunteers is a collection of one-liners, mostly good, wrapped around an undeveloped story, generally dull. Despite its frequent glimmers of intelligence, it's an unsatisfactory comedy that yawns to a close.
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- Nicholas Meyer
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- Tom Hanks
Aug 14, 2020 · Premiering in theaters 35 years ago this week, Volunteers received mixed-to-negative reviews and grossed less than $20 million — ahead of now-cult favorites like Ladyhawke and Starman, but well...
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- Ethan Alter
Volunteers: Directed by Nicholas Meyer. With Tom Hanks, John Candy, Rita Wilson, Tim Thomerson. 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.
