Swimming to Cambodia


1987 spoken word thing

Rating: 15/20

Plot: Spalding Gray talks about a bunch of shit for about an hour and a half.

Spalding Gray sure could tell a story. Combine that with the kinds of tricks Jonathan Demme played when shooting people like the Talking Heads and Robyn Hitchcock on stage, and you've got something that I think I could have watched for five hours. Gray would have run out of water though, so that wouldn't have worked.

This is like a one-man My Dinner with Andre without a dinner. Or an Andre. Well, there's kind of an Andre.

I thought I had seen this in high school, but I'm not sure now.

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