Volunteers

Volunteers
by Nicholas Meyer

Volunteers
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Actor: Gedde Watanabe, John Candy, Rita Wilson, Tim Thomerson, Tom Hanks
Director: Nicholas Meyer
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-02-29
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Hbo Home Video

Movie Reviews of Volunteers

Movie Review: Terribly funny
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie has it all... the upper-crust socialite, the super-patriotic and single-minded engineer, an idealist do-gooder, a Chinese warlord, a CIA agent, a foreign kid who's picked up American slang, Commie agents... the list goes on and on. This has always been one of my favorite movies and I like watching it every once in a while, whenever I feel like laughing at the Peace Corps. "We were never crazy about the bridge anyway."

Summary of Volunteers

Tom hanks and john candy find themselves an unlikely pair out to do good or have fun trying with the peace corps in thailand. Is there a female safe from hanks as his most hilarious. Special features: cast biographies/filmographies and theatrical trailer. Subtitles: english french and spanish. Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 05/31/2005 Starring: Tom Hanks John Candy Run time: 107 minutes Rating: R
Before Tom Hanks was an Oscar-winning megacelebrity, before he became a serious and only sometimes comedic actor, before he won that second Oscar, he starred in both romantic comedies (Splash) and lowbrow comedies (Bachelor Party). More lowbrow than romantic (though he did end up marrying costar Rita Wilson), Volunteers is set in 1962, back when the Peace Corps was all the rage. Hanks, speaking with an unfortunate accent meant to represent aristocratic wealth, plays a compulsive gambler, recently graduated from Yale, whose father suddenly refuses to pay his debts. To escape some particularly shady characters, he joins the Peace Corps and boards a plane headed to Southeast Asia.

For a comedy made in the '80s, there is less of a reliance on (Asian) stereotypes for punch lines than one would predict, though the movie is far from being politically sensitive. And speaking of politics, the politics of the movie are all messed up, ending up as a huge indictment of the Peace Corps as a corrupt tool of the government, despite some kind words at the end. Perhaps the biggest drawback of the movie, though, is its 107-minute running time; there's just too much emphasis on plot. Whenever costar John Candy appears, everything picks up, making you wish he was the star and the movie was about his character, Tom Tuttle from Tacoma, Washington. Ultimately, Volunteers ends up a better legacy for Candy than Hanks. --Andy Spletzer

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