Volunteers (1985)
"Ready or not, here they come."

Title: Volunteers
Original Title: Volunteers
Release Date: 1985-08-16
Status: Released
Rating: 5.494/10 (from 163 votes)
Language: EN
Genres: Comedy
Production Companies: TriStar Pictures
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. 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. 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.
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