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Volunteers

Cast

Tom Hanks, John Candy, Rita Wilson, Tim Thomerson View All

Crew

Nicholas Meyer (Director), Keith Critchlow (Story), Ken Levine (Screenplay), David Isaacs (Screenplay) View All

Release: Aug. 16th, 1985

Runtime: 1 hour, 47 minutes

Lawrence is a rich kid with a bad accent and a large debt. After his father refuses to help him out, Lawrence escapes his angry debtors by jumping on a Peace Corp flight to Southeast Asia, where he is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with American-As-Apple-Pie WSU Grad Tom Tuttle and the beautiful and down-to earth Beth Wexler.

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Gideon58
Splash put Tom Hanks on the map and he followed it up with 1985's Volunteers, a film with less substance and definitely had an inferior director, but proved that Tom Hanks had the ability to make obviously mediocre material seem a lot better than it really is.

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