
After his rich father refuses to pay his debt, compulsive gambler Lawrence Bourne III joins the Peace Corps to evade angry creditors. In Thailand, he is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with the help of American-As-Apple-Pie WSU Grad Tom Tuttle and the beautiful and down-to earth Beth Wexler. What they don't realize is that the bridge is coveted by the U.S. Army, a local Communist force, and a powerful drug lord. Together with the help of At Toon, the only English speaking native, they must fight off the three opposing forces and find out what is right for the villagers, as well as themselves.
Cast

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
Crew

Nicholas Meyer
Director
David Isaacs
Screenplay

Ken Levine
Screenplay
Keith Critchlow
Story
Steve Polivka
Editor
Ronald Roose
Editor
Ric Waite
Director of Photography
Elie Cohn
First Assistant Director
Richard Shepherd
Producer

Walter F. Parkes
Producer
Theodore R. Parvin
Associate Producer
James L. Schoppe
Production Design
Leo J. Napolitano
Camera Operator
Salvador 'Apache' Serrano
Dolly Grip
Joyce Robinson
Casting
Penny Ellers
Casting
Josefina Mendoza
Hairstylist
Esperanza Gómez
Hairstylist

Allan A. Apone
Makeup Designer
Alberto López
Makeup Artist
Del Armstrong
Makeup Supervisor
Jorge Sainz
Assistant Art Director
Lon Bender
Supervising Sound Editor

Wylie Stateman
Supervising Sound Editor
Dan M. Rich
Sound Editor
Elliott Koretz
Sound Editor
Randy Kelley
Sound Editor
Terry Lynn Allen
Sound Editor
Lorna Anderson
Assistant Sound Editor
Joe Gilbert
Assistant Sound Editor
Gary Alexander
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Chris Jenkins
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Robert Glass
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Claude Hitchcock
Sound Mixer

Mark P. Stoeckinger
ADR Editor
Stan Gilbert
ADR Editor
Laurencio Cordero
Special Effects Coordinator
Daniel Cordero
Special Effects

James Horner
Original Music Composer
Else Blangsted
Music Editor
Jim Weidman
Music Editor

Robert Easton
Dialect Coach
Alfredo Ruvalcaba
Still Photographer

Kane Hodder
Stunts
Ellie Mite
Stunts
Paul Staples
Stunts
Denny Arnold
Stunts
Rob King
Stunts
Alan Marcus
Stunts
Wayne King Sr.
Stunts
Dianne L. Wilson
Stunts
John Barrett
Stunts

BJ Davis
Stunt Coordinator
Ray Mercer Jr.
Property Master
Heriberto Cárdenas
Cableman
Brian Ralph
Negative Cutter
Carl Boles
Gaffer
José Rodríguez Granada
Art Direction
Raúl Esquivel
Wigmaker
Claude King
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