Volunteers poster

Movie · 1985

Volunteers

Released 16 August 1985 More from 1985 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

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?

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How old were they?

Oldest first
George Plimpton
as Lawrence Bourne Jr.
58
Professor Toru Tanaka
as Sumo Guard
55
Virginia Kiser
as Evelyn Bourne
46
Tim Thomerson
as John Reynolds
39
Gedde Watanabe
as At Toon
30
Tom Hanks
as Lawrence Whatley Bourne III
29
Rita Wilson
as Beth Wexler
28
Jacqueline Evans
as Aunt Eunice
Unknown
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
30years between the oldest and youngest billed
58George Plimpton — oldest on the call sheet
28Rita Wilson — youngest billed
41average age of the credited cast
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