

16/08/1985
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?

Tom Hanks
as Lawrence Whatley Bourne III

John Candy
as Tom Tuttle

Rita Wilson
as Beth Wexler

Tim Thomerson
as John Reynolds

Gedde Watanabe
as At Toon

George Plimpton
as Lawrence Bourne Jr.

Ernest Harada
as Chung Mee

Allan Arbus
as Albert Bardenaro

Xander Berkeley
as Kent Sutcliffe

Ji-Tu Cumbuka
as Cicero

Jacqueline Evans
as Aunt Eunice

Pamela Gual
as Tammy the Stewardess

Chick Hearn
as Announcer

Virginia Kiser
as Evelyn Bourne

Clyde Kusatsu
as Souvanna

Jude Mussetter
as Bootsy Winder

Carlos Romano
as Beatty

Duncan Ross
as Noble

Shakti Chen
as Lucille

Professor Toru Tanaka
as Sumo Guard

Guillermo Río
as Sumo Guard

Lonnie Wun
as Sumo Guard

Harry Yorku
as Al Pe

Fidel Castro
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Doris Day
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

John Glenn
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Rock Hudson
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

John F. Kennedy
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Nikita Khrushchev
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mao Zedong
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Marilyn Monroe
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Jacqueline Kennedy
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

John XXIII.
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ed Sullivan
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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