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Director:
Jonathan Demme
Writer:
Spalding Gray (writer)
Release Date:
April 1987 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
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
Awards:
5 nominations more
User Comments:
The best monologue ever captured on film more

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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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Cambodia (Australia)
Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia (USA) (complete title)
Declarações de Spalding Gray (Brazil) [pt]
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Runtime:
85 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (TVC)
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Australia:M | USA:R
Filming Locations:
New York City, New York, USA

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Spalding Gray: Then out comes the banana! And she takes a few lame shots like the Russian rockets that are going to sputter and pop and land in our cornfields. And for the finally she aims her vagina down the main isle like a great cannon, loads it with a very ripe banana and thoomp fires it! Almost hits me in the eye, almost hits an Australian housewife in the head, hits the back wall and sticks! And slowly it inches its way down until it, pomp, lands... and is devoured instantly by an army of giant roaches. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Will & Grace: Swimming from Cambodia (#6.8)" (2003) more

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6 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
The best monologue ever captured on film, 5 June 2001
Author: davemart from Austin, TX

Spalding Gray calls his version of performance art a "talking cure." The facts, opinions, insights, fears and hopes drawn from the epiphany he received from his experiences in the Asian Rim shooting "The Killing Fields" and his education of the plight of the Cambodian people circa early to mid seventies is overwhelming. This is a story of the human condition as told by a master. He is Dr. Frankenstein creating the monster that is ourselves through a tapestry of wordplay that never seems overwrought or cumbersome in the slightest. This movie is one man reading from a standard notebook, behind a plain table accented with a glass of water and shadowed by a ceiling fan and selection of maps. Demme's use of lighting and Laurie Anderson's soundtrack provide all the dramatic power needed to sustain Gray as he literally helps us all better understand life, humanity and our responsibilities to each other while we spend time on this planet. Intense, funny, heartbreaking and invigorating; this movie inspires and changes all who watch it.

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