Volunteers

Volunteers

Ready or not, here they come.

R 1985 · 107 min · ★ 5.5 · Comedy

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?

Directed by Nicholas Meyer · Written by Keith Critchlow

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