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Volunteers (1985)

Volunteers (1985)

Comedy

Ready or not, here they come.

Release Date: 1985, August 16
Directors: Nicholas Meyer
Countries: United States of America
Production: HBO Films, Silver Screen Partners
Cast: Tom Hanks, Gedde Watanabe, Xander Berkeley, George Plimpton, Clyde Kusatsu, Virginia Kiser, Rita Wilson, John Candy, Professor Toru Tanaka, Lonnie Wun, Ernest Harada, Tim Thomerson

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?

Keywords:

communism gambling cold war product placement asia wealthy wealth brainwashing village thailand central intelligence agency (cia) bridge spoiled child debt naivety yale university