Swimming to Cambodia

Summary: Spalding Gray discusses his participation in the film The Killing Fields (1984) and the background story about the troubles of Cambodia.

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Jonathan Demme

Writer: Spalding Gray

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: R

Production: The Swimming Company

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), October Films, Shout! Factory, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,092,911

Box office:

Domestic:$1.1MWorldwide:$1.1M

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The Rotten Tomatoes audience rated this -9% lower than the critics.

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The average Metacritic score is 68%.

Metacritic Meta:

68/100

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0% of the Stars & Main Cast are Female.

0% of the Stars & Main Cast are "diverse."

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Race	White	Asian	Black	Total	Visuals	Info
Kairos	9		1	10		A third party facial recognition software company we used to maintain objectivity. Upload images to the facial recognition demo page to check the veracity of our data set. Or use their API and do a bulk peer review if you'd like. Source: https://www.kairos.com/demos
Forebears	2	2		4
Ethnic	3			3		This is the most reliable data source for accurate ethnic breakdowns of famous people. Often the information is crowdsourced by users and they cite all their sources (family trees, obituaries, census archives, etc.) on the bottom of the page. The only issue is converting their ambiguous and inconsistent verdicts into quantifiable variables. Source: https://ethnicelebs.com/
Total	14	2	1	17
Cast Percentages	82.35%	11.76%	5.88%	100%	{"name":"Cast Percentages","series":[{"name":"White","y":82.35,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":11.76,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":5.88,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":""}
U.S. Population (1950) Percentage	89.5%	0.21%	10%		{"name":"U.S. Population (1950)","series":[{"name":"White","y":89.5,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Arab","y":0,"color":"#DF5353"},{"name":"Asian","y":0.21,"color":"#90ee7e"},{"name":"Black","y":10,"color":"#f45b5b"},{"name":"Indian","y":0,"color":"#7798BF"},{"name":"Indigenous","y":0.2,"color":"#aaeeee"},{"name":"Latino","y":2.1,"color":"#eeaaee"},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":0.03,"color":"#55BF3B"},{"name":"Jewish","y":3.11,"color":"#ff0066"}],"prefix":""}	Source: US Census (Note: Racial and ethnic categories overlap so the sum will not equal 100%.)
U.S. Population (1950) Representation	-7.15	+11.55	-4.12		{"name":"U.S. Population (1950)","series":[["White",89.5],["Asian",0.21],["Black",10]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":82.35,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Asian","y":11.76,"color":"#90ee7e"},{"name":"Black","y":5.88,"color":"#f45b5b"}]}
U.S. Buying Power (2000) Percentage	81.25%	3.5%	7.72%		{"name":"U.S. Buying Power (2000)","series":[{"name":"White","y":6413300000000,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":0,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":276400000000,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":609100000000,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":0,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":40300000000,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":494000000000,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":60300000000,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":0,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":"$"}	Source: Selig Center, University of Georgia
U.S. Buying Power (2000) Representation	+1.1	+8.26	-1.84		{"name":"U.S. Buying Power (2000)","series":[["White",81.25],["Asian",3.5],["Black",7.72]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":82.35,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Asian","y":11.76,"color":"#90ee7e"},{"name":"Black","y":5.88,"color":"#f45b5b"}]}
U.S. Average Individual Income (2018) Percentage	91.73%	0.24%	6.9%		{"name":"U.S. Average Individual Income (2018)","series":[{"name":"White","y":10071633252712,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":0,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":26213784481,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":757617279863,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":0,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":16148742549,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":106234548000,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":2335750822,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":0,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":"$"}	Source: IPUMS-CPS, University of Minnesota
U.S. Average Individual Income (2018) Representation	-9.38	+11.52	-1.02		{"name":"U.S. Average Individual Income (2018)","series":[["White",91.73],["Asian",0.24],["Black",6.9]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":82.35,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Asian","y":11.76,"color":"#90ee7e"},{"name":"Black","y":5.88,"color":"#f45b5b"}]}
World population (1960) Percentage	24.26%	35.14%	8.74%		{"name":"World population (1960) ","series":[{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":5505891663,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":16303932915,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":3319084808,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"White","y":73088413576,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":26323680328,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":105885338709,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":16554213546,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":53158782795,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":1167943535,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":""}	NOTE: ZR is the first organization to ever create a global buying power divided by race. Essentially we just took data from CIA.gov FactBook, UN Population Estimates, and The World Bank's Population Estimates / Purchasing Power Parity Per Capita.
World population (1960) Representation	+58.09	-23.38	-2.86		{"name":"World population (1960) ","series":[["White",24.26],["Asian",35.14],["Black",8.74]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":82.35,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Asian","y":11.76,"color":"#90ee7e"},{"name":"Black","y":5.88,"color":"#f45b5b"}]}
World Buying Power Percentage	36.48%	29.46%	6.38%		{"name":"World Buying Power","series":[{"name":"White","y":3010602822170000,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":771525888400000,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":91700962050000,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":526264226360000,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":174285727610000,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":148984454560000,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":526400066100000,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":2431392083750000,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":572687873900000,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":"$"}	NOTE: ZR is the first organization to ever create a global buying power divided by race. Essentially we just took data from CIA.gov FactBook, UN Population Estimates, and The World Bank's Population Estimates / Purchasing Power Parity Per Capita.
World Buying Power Representation	+45.87	-17.7	-0.5		{"name":"World Buying Power","series":[["White",36.48],["Asian",29.46],["Black",6.38]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":82.35,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Asian","y":11.76,"color":"#90ee7e"},{"name":"Black","y":5.88,"color":"#f45b5b"}]}
Notes		The US Census considers Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Indian, and Bangladeshi as Asians. At ZR we group Pakistanis with the Arab world. And we group Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi with India because 1.) they are all genetically similar as "South Asians and 2.) there are only a handful of actors from those regions in our database. However, you are viewing the "Asian Alone" category from the US Census when comparing it with Domestic representation. Also note that the 2000 and 2010 estimates include MultiRacial Asians not just "Asian Alone" estimates, and in some categories they include Native Hawaiians as "Asian." So there is a margin of error less than 1% and some inconsistencies with the grouping.