Volunteers
by Nicholas Meyer
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Actor: Gedde Watanabe, John Candy, Rita Wilson, Tim Thomerson, Tom HanksDirector: 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: Classic
Summary: 4 Stars
Back in the day, before Tom Hanks starred in serious and dramatic roles, he did more comedic roles. This is one of my favorites. Tom Hanks plays a rich boy, snob on the run from a large gambling debt, who switches places with his college roommate on his way to join the peace corps. He is paired with Rita Wilson and John Candy on his journey. John Candy is fantastic as always, playing overly outgoing goofball. A role he plays perfectly. Also, Gedde Wantanabe is hilarious. In my opinion he steals most of the scenes he is in. Great cast, funny movie.
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: RBefore 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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