Volunteers (1985)

Directors

Nicholas Meyer

Cast

Tom Hanks, John Candy, Rita Wilson, Tim Thomerson, Gedde Watanabe

The story

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 son’s debt, involving the 1962 NBA Finals the son escapes his angry creditors by trading places with his college roommate Kent, on a Peace Corps flight to Thailand. On the plane, he meets Washington State graduate Tom Tuttle from Tacoma, and the beautiful, down-to-earth Beth Wexler, the latter rejecting his advances once realizing why he is really there.

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