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3	A 1985 comedy film directed by Creator/NicholasMeyer, starring Creator/TomHanks and Creator/JohnCandy.
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5	In 1962, Lawrence Bourne III (Hanks) is a BlueBlood college student who gets himself into severe trouble with gambling debts and his father won't pay. So he quickly takes a friend's place on a plane for the Peace Corps going to Thailand, where he has to build a bridge. This bridge is quickly sought out by Drug Dealers, the CIA, and the Communist army.
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8	!!''Volunteers'' provides examples of:
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10	* AlliterativeName: Tom Tuttle from Tacoma (Washington).
11	* BlueBlood: Lawrence and his entire family.
12	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Tom Tuttle takes to his Communist masters rather quickly.
13	* CovertGroupWithMundaneFront: John Reynolds, the supervisor of the Peace Corps volunteers, is actually a CIA agent.
14	* FemmeFatale: Lucille, Chung Mee's bodyguard.
15	* FunWithSubtitles: Lawrence and At Toon have trouble understanding Lucille, so they examine her subtitles to understand what she is saying.
16	* HolidayInCambodia: Takes place for the majority in Thailand.
17	* {{Homage}}: There are certain references to ''Film/TheBridgeOnTheRiverKwai''.
18	* GilliganCut: Tom Tuttle's quick conversion to the communist cause.
19	* IvyLeagueForEveryone: Lawrence went to Yale.
20	* MightyWhitey: Played straight, shockingly.
21	* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Tom Hanks' accent bounces between a bad uppercrust Boston accent to Hanks' normal voice.
22	* PreppyName: Lawrence Bourne III
23	* RedChina: The communist army who is planning on taking over the bridge for their own purposes.
24	* SanitySlippage: Tom gets a little ... ''manic'' about building the bridge. He gets better.
25	* SupervillainLair: Chung Mee's castle on top of a mountain with henchmen, FemmeFatale Bodyguard, a pet leopard, and spooky architecture.

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