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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
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)