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Swimming to Cambodia (1987)
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Spalding Gray (writer)
Release Date:
April 1987 (USA)
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Plot:
Spalding Gray tells about his participation in the film, "The Killing Fields" & the background story about the troubles of Cambodia. full summary | add synopsis
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5 nominations
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(5 articles)
Soderbergh Says His Spalding Gray Documentary is Finished
(From FirstShowing.net. 12 September 2009, 9:45 AM, PDT)
“Spalding Never Got Normal”: Jonathan Demme on Swimming To Cambodia
(From Spout. 12 May 2009, 10:34 PM, PDT)
(From FirstShowing.net. 12 September 2009, 9:45 AM, PDT)
“Spalding Never Got Normal”: Jonathan Demme on Swimming To Cambodia
(From Spout. 12 May 2009, 10:34 PM, PDT)
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Masterful monologue
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Spalding Gray | ... | Himself |
 | Sam Waterston | ... | Additional cast from 'The Killing Fields' (archive footage) |
 | Ira Wheeler | ... | Additional cast from 'The Killing Fields' (archive footage) |
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Cambodia (Australia)
Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia (USA) (complete title)
Declarações de Spalding Gray (Brazil) [pt]
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Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia (USA) (complete title)
Declarações de Spalding Gray (Brazil) [pt]
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85 min
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Spalding Gray:
[as Athol Furgard] Spalding! The sea's a lovely lady when you play in her. But if you play with her, she's a BITCH! Play in the sea, yes, but never play with her. You're lucky to be here! You're lucky to be ALIVE!
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Referenced in "Will & Grace: Swimming from Cambodia (#6.8)" (2003)
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| DVD -- Why so late? | cellmaker |
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"Swimming to Cambodia" is an amazing piece of work. One of Spalding Gray's monologue pieces, it features him taking a story that seems like it should have been only mildly interesting and turning it into poetry. Directed by the incomparable Johnathan Demme and featuring music by the brilliant and eccentric Laurie Anderson, Gray recounts his experiences in the filming of "The Killing Fields." Gray's words tell of bizarre, disturbing, exciting and moving experiences in exotic locales. His words move from beautiful to disgusting, hopeful to horrifying, and always with a masterful lyricism that places him as one of the absolute masters of the English language! The book (published 1985) is supposed to be a great read, but the film of Gray himself telling the stories is an experience beyond compare. Spalding Gray's genius will be greatly missed.