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  1. 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.

  2. Aug 16, 1985 · 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. Will he survive 2 years?

  3. On the plane, he meets Washington State graduate Tom Tuttle from Tacoma (John Candy) and the beautiful, down-to-earth Beth Wexler (Rita Wilson), the latter rejecting his advances once realizing ...

  4. 1985 Release year. 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.

  5. Jul 29, 2017 · After his father refuses to help him out, Lawrence escapes his angry debtors by jumping on a Peace Corp flight to Southeast Asia, where he is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers ...

  6. Overview. 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.

  7. Directed by Nicholas Meyer. 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.