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Volunteers is a 1985 American comedy film directed by Nicholas Meyer and starring Tom Hanks and John Candy. Plot [ edit ] Lawrence Bourne III is a spoiled kid who just graduated from Yale , Class of 1962, with a $28,000 gambling debt.
- $10 million
- James Horner
- August 16, 1985
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.
- Nicholas Meyer
- 47
- 2 min
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 Tuttle ...
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- Nicholas Meyer
- R
- Tom Hanks
Synopsis. Yale University, 1963. Lawrence Bourne III (Tom Hanks) has a $28,000 gambling debt, and loan shark, Albert Bordonaro (Alan Arbus), gives him one day to come up with the money. Lawrence bets on a football game, and listens to the outcome over a portable radio while he attends his graduation ceremony.
Volunteers (1985) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
The film was adapted for the big screen by Alex March in 1968 with Alan Alda playing the role of Plimpton. That same year, he made his film debut as a reporter in Gordon Douglas' police thriller The Detective (1968) starring Frank Sinatra and followed that up with an amusing cameo as a gunman shot my John Wayne in Howard Hawks' Rio Lobo (1970).
Aug 16, 1985 · Lawrence Bourne III (Tom Hanks) is an upper-class heel who has to flee the country to escape his gambling debts and so sneaks aboard an airplane filled with Peace Corps volunteers en route to Thailand. On the plane he is befriended by well-meaning Peace Corps worker Tom Tuttle (John Candy). Once in Thailand, the workers become involved with ...
