Fresh
A little melancholy may blend with the laughter ''Volunteers'' draws at the expense of those earnest days when a President was urging people to ask what they could do for their country.
Walter Goodman, New York Times
Overview
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. What they don't realize is that the bridge is coveted by the U.S. Army, a local Communist force, and a powerful drug lord. Together with the help of At Toon, the only English speaking native, they must fight off the three opposing forces and find out what is right for the villagers, as well as themselves.
Director and cast
- Nicholas Meyer Director
- Tom Hanks as Lawrence Whatley Bourne III
- John Candy as Tom Tuttle
- Rita Wilson as Beth Wexler
- Tim Thomerson as John Reynolds
- Gedde Watanabe as At Toon
- George Plimpton as Lawrence Bourne Jr.
- Ernest Harada as Chung Mee
- Allan Arbus as Albert Bardenaro
- Xander Berkeley as Kent Sutcliffe
- Ji-Tu Cumbuka as Cicero
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
58%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Promising premise and opening shortly descend into unduly protracted tedium.
Variety
Fresh
A blase Hanks redeems this string of sexist, racist, comic cliches with winning charm. It's funny.
Time Out
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