The Man with One Red Shoe
1985
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Plot. Lawrence Bourne III is a spoiled kid who just graduated from Yale, Class of 1962, with a $28,000 gambling debt. When his father, Lawrence Bourne Jr., refuses to pay his debt, he escapes his angry creditors by trading places with his college roommate Kent, jumping on a Peace Corps flight to Thailand. On the plane, he meets Washington State ...
- $10 million
- James Horner
- August 16, 1985
Screenplay. Keith Critchlow. Story. 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.
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
55. R 1 hr 47 min Aug 16th, 1985 Comedy. 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 ...
- (141)
- Nicholas Meyer
- R
- Tom Hanks
Watch Volunteers. R. 1985. 1 hr 47 min. 5.5 (10,402) 55. The 1985 film "Volunteers" is a comedy-adventure flick directed by Nicholas Meyer and stars Tom Hanks, John Candy, and Rita Wilson. The story is set in 1962 and follows the journey of Lawrence Bourne III (Tom Hanks), a spoiled Ivy League graduate who's trying to escape his gambling debts ...
A snobby, rich young man from the Northeast lands into trouble with his gambling debts, and in order to escape, he ends up in the Peace Corps in Thailand where he meets some genuinely devoted American volunteers.
