Volunteers (film)

Infobox_Film
name=Volunteers |ayeahh

caption = The movie cover for "Volunteers".
imdb_id=0090274
writer=Keith F. Critchlow
David Isaacs
Ken Levine
starring=Tom Hanks
John Candy
director=Nicholas Meyer
music=James Horner | distributor=TriStar Pictures
released=August 16, 1985
runtime=107 min.
country=USA
language=English
movie_series=
awards=
producer=Walter F. Parkes
Richard Shepherd
budget= |

"The Volunteers" is a 1985 comedy directed by Nicholas Meyer.

Plot

Tom Hanks stars as Lawrence, a rich kid with a large debt. After his father refuses to help him out, Lawrence escapes his angry debtors by jumping on a Peace Corps flight to Southeast Asia. There he is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with Washington State University Grad Tom Tuttle (from Tacoma, Washington), 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.

The film is a spoof of Bridge over the River Kwai, with the Washington State University Fight Song used in place of the Colonel Bogey March.

Cast

*Tom Hanks Lawrence Bourne III
*John Candy Tom Tuttle
*Rita Wilson Beth Wexler
*Tim Thomerson John Reynolds
*Gedde Watanabe At Toon
*George Plimpton Lawrence Bourne, Jr.
*Ernest Harada Chung Mee
*Allan Arbus Albert Bardenaro
*Xander Berkeley Kent Sutcliffe

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090274/ Volunteers] at Imdb
* [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/volunteers Volunteers] at Rotten Tomatoes