Volunteers (1985)
Average Rating: 4.6/10
Reviews Counted: 8
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 4
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Release Date: Aug 16, 1985 Wide
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Tom Hanks and John Candy were reunited for the first time since Splash in this period comedy about Peace Corps worker during the optimistic period of the Kennedy presidency. 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
Aug 16, 1985 Wide
Mar 13, 2001
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Cast
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Tom Hanks
Lawrence Bourne III -
John Candy
Tom Tuttle from Tacoma -
Rita Wilson
Beth Wexler -
Tim Thomerson
John Reynolds -
Gedde Watanabe
At Toon -
George Plimpton
Lawrence Bourne Jr. -
Ernest Harada
Chung Mee -
Allan Arbus
Albert Bordonaro -
Xander Berkeley
Kent Sutcliffe -
Ji-Tu Cumbuka
Cicero -
Clyde Kusatsu
Souvanna -
Jacqueline Evans
Aunt Eunice -
Chick Hearn
Announcer -
Virginia Kiser
Evelyn Bourne -
Jude Mussetter
Bootsy -
Carlos Romano
Beatty -
Duncan Ross
Noble -
Shakti
Lucille -
Prof. Toru Tanaka
Sumo Guard -
Harry Yorku
Ai Po -
Duan Ji-Shun
Cicero -
Guillermo del Rio
Sumo Guard -
Pamela Gual
Tammy -
Phillip Guilmant
Yale President -
Lonnie Wun
Sumo Guard -
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All Critics (11) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (4) | DVD (5)
Often funny premise, but comedy cast makes it work.
...a silly, thoroughly unmemorable comedy...
As a satire on the 1960s, the film, directed by Nicholas Meyer, is more sour than silly.
One of the better films from Hanks' minor-league, pre-"Big" career.
No Time After Time or Star Trek 6, but you gotta love Candy.
Audience Reviews for Volunteers
Super Reviewer
However, Beth won't give him the time of day and Tom is a royal pain in the ass nevertheless the trio gets immersed in an elaborate scheme to build a bridge. Hanks and Candy are very humorous while Gedde Watanabe plays a local named Toon, a fast-talking kid who went to an American School in Bangkok who helps Hanks and Candy communicate with his people.
Lawrence ends up building the bridge, but then realizes that it was a dreadful mistake, as he comes face to face with brainwashed Communists, deviant drug pushers and John Reynolds, as the crazed CIA operative, who names his Bowie knife "Mike."
A piece of trivia for you to digest: It was on this movie set that Tom Hanks won the heart of his second wife Rita Wilson and the duo are still married to date.
Super Reviewer
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