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?
Cast
Tom Hanks
Lawrence Whatley 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
Ji-Tu Cumbuka
Cicero
Jacqueline Evans
Aunt Eunice
Pamela Gual
Tammy the Stewardess
Chick Hearn
Announcer
Virginia Kiser
Evelyn Bourne
Clyde Kusatsu
Souvanna
Jude Mussetter
Bootsy Winder
Carlos Romano
Beatty
Duncan Ross
Noble
Shakti Chen
Lucille
Professor Toru Tanaka
Sumo Guard
Guillermo Río
Sumo Guard
Lonnie Wun
Sumo Guard
Harry Yorku
Al Pe
Fidel Castro
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Doris Day
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Glenn
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rock Hudson
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mao Zedong
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marilyn Monroe
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jacqueline Kennedy
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
John XXIII.
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ed Sullivan
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Crew
Nicholas Meyer
Director
David Isaacs
Screenplay
Ken Levine
Screenplay
Keith Critchlow
Story
Steve Polivka
Editor
Ronald Roose
Editor
Ric Waite
Director of Photography
Elie Cohn
First Assistant Director
Walter F. Parkes
Producer
Richard Shepherd
Producer
Theodore R. Parvin
Associate Producer
James L. Schoppe
Production Design
Leo J. Napolitano
Camera Operator
Salvador 'Apache' Serrano
Dolly Grip
Penny Ellers
Casting
Joyce Robinson
Casting
Esperanza Gómez
Hairstylist
Josefina Mendoza
Hairstylist
Allan A. Apone
Makeup Designer
Alberto López
Makeup Artist
Del Armstrong
Makeup Supervisor
Jorge Sainz
Assistant Art Director
Lon Bender
Supervising Sound Editor
Wylie Stateman
Supervising Sound Editor
Terry Lynn Allen
Sound Editor
Randy Kelley
Sound Editor
Elliott Koretz
Sound Editor
Dan M. Rich
Sound Editor
Lorna Anderson
Assistant Sound Editor
Joe Gilbert
Assistant Sound Editor
Chris Jenkins
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Robert Glass
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Gary Alexander
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Claude Hitchcock
Sound Mixer
Stan Gilbert
ADR Editor
Mark P. Stoeckinger
ADR Editor
Laurencio Cordero
Special Effects Coordinator
Daniel Cordero
Special Effects
James Horner
Original Music Composer
Else Blangsted
Music Editor
Jim Weidman
Music Editor
Robert Easton
Dialect Coach
Alfredo Ruvalcaba
Still Photographer
Kane Hodder
Stunts
Denny Arnold
Stunts
Wayne King Sr.
Stunts
Rob King
Stunts
John Barrett
Stunts
Ellie Mite
Stunts
Paul Staples
Stunts
Alan Marcus
Stunts
Dianne L. Wilson
Stunts
BJ Davis
Stunt Coordinator
Ray Mercer Jr.
Property Master
Heriberto Cárdenas
Cableman
Brian Ralph
Negative Cutter
Carl Boles
Gaffer
José Rodríguez Granada
Art Direction
Raúl Esquivel
Wigmaker
Claude King
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