The Man with One Red Shoe
1985
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- Volunteers is a collection of one-liners, mostly good, wrapped around an undeveloped story, generally dull. Despite its frequent glimmers of intelligence, it's an unsatisfactory comedy that yawns to a close.
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I highly recommend this movie - John Candy and Tom Hanks always shine as a comedic pair and this movie is no exception. Hanks' cluelessly privileged character coupled with Candy's overzealous patriotic naivety is a perfect comedic match-up.
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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.
Volunteers Reviews. Hanks is excellent and has a way with funny lines that marks him as one of the better droll comic actors, if given the right material. Here, writers Ken Levine and David...
Aug 14, 2020 · Premiering in theaters 35 years ago this week, Volunteers received mixed-to-negative reviews and grossed less than $20 million — ahead of now-cult favorites like Ladyhawke and Starman, but well...
- 2 min
- Ethan Alter
Aug 16, 1985 · Volunteers: Directed by Nicholas Meyer. 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.
- (11K)
- Adventure, Comedy
- Nicholas Meyer
- 1985-08-16
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...
- (12)
- Comedy
- R
Aug 17, 2020 · VOLUNTEERS is a Summer of 1985 comedy that takes place in 1962 – about the same time Bobby Fontana died in THE HEAVENLY KID, when George and Lorraine McFly must’ve been a few years out of college.
