Volunteers

Overview

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 a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Thai Golden Triangle with two other PCVs. Will he survive two years?

Details

Cast

Tom Hanks

Lawrence Whatley Bourne III

John Candy

Tom Tuttle

Rita Wilson

Beth Wexler

Tim Thomerson

John Reynolds

Gedde Watanabe

At Toon

George Plimpton

Lawrence Bourne Jr.

Ernest Harada

Chung Mee

Allan Arbus

Albert Bardenaro

Xander Berkeley

Kent Sutcliffe

Ji-Tu Cumbuka

Cicero

Jacqueline Evans

Aunt Eunice

Pamela Gual

Tammy

Chick Hearn

Announcer

Virginia Kiser

Evelyn Bourne

Clyde Kusatsu

Souvanna

Jude Mussetter

Bootsy Winder

Carlos Romano

Beatty

Duncan Ross

Noble

Shakti Chen

Lucille

Professor Toru Tanaka

Sumo Guard