Swimming to Cambodia

Name: Swimming to Cambodia
Genre: Drama
Released: March 13, 1987
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 68
Cast: Spalding Gray

1987

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Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews

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Cinecom Pictures | Release Date: March 13, 1987 | R

Starring: Spalding Gray

Summary: Spalding Gray's stage monologue about his experiences while making "The Killing Fields" and the history of Cambodia.

Director: Jonathan Demme

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 85 min

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

A mesmerizing odyssey through the mind of a uniquely talented performer, as well as through one of the gorier chapters of modern history. Read full review

Jay Carr

Gray's haunted, obsessional riffs are absorbing theater. Because Demme had the good sense to lay back and not beat them over the head with his cameras, they're equally compelling on film. [27 Mar 1987]

Janet Maslin

Mr. Gray's feature-length monologue brings people, places and things so vibrantly to life that they're very nearly visible on the screen. Read full review

Roger Ebert

This curious idea for a movie actually works. Read full review

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Spalding Gray's free-associating recollection of his experiences in Thailand during the making of The Killing Fields had an exhilarating immediacy which is mostly absent in this compressed filmed performance of Swimming to Cambodia. Read full review

Desson Howe

As lectures go, this may be the most fun one yet. Read full review

Richard Schickel

His is a dispassionate sensibility, and he is not a strong enough actor - nor has he a strong enough intelligence - to fight his way out of the false analogy he has drawn between moviemaking and tragic history in the making. Read full review

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