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
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Volunteers
Overview
After graduating from Yale in 1962, womanizing Lawrence flees a gambling debt that his rich dad won't pay and takes his roomie's place as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Thai Golden Triangle with two other PCVs. Will he survive two years?
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
67%
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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