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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.
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. Will he survive two years?
Jul 29, 2017 · Volunteers (1985) Lawrence is a rich kid with a bad accent and a large debt. After his father refuses to help him out, Lawrence escapes his angry debtors by ...
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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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.
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. After his rich father refuses to pay his debt, compulsive gambler Lawrence Bourne III joins the Peace Corps to evade angry creditors.
Volunteers is a 1985 American comedy film directed by Nicholas Meyer and starring Tom Hanks and John Candy in their second film together after Splash (1984).
