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Drowning by Numbers is a crime comedy-drama 1988 British-Dutch film directed by Peter Greenaway. It won the award for Best Artistic Contribution at the Cannes Film Festival of 1988.
Drowning by Numbers: Directed by Peter Greenaway. With Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson, Bernard Hill. Three generations of women share the same problem--marriage woes--and want to put an end to it.
Cissie Colpitts (Joan Plowright) drowns her cheating husband and in the ensuing cover-up enlists the help of lonely coroner Henry Madgett (Bernard Hill), an old friend with a longstanding...
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Dame Joan Plowright, four-time BAFTA Award nominee Juliet Stevenson and two-time Golden Globe nominee Joely Richardson star as three generations of women who murder their husbands in an unsettling salvo of sumptuous visuals, macabre capers and numerical mischief.
Jun 7, 1991 · The characters in “Drowning by Numbers” are all completely credible people, who speak in ordinary English and inhabit a real landscape (except for the numbers), and behave in ways that would not shock the reader of a mystery novel.
Three generations of women--a mother, her daughter, and her niece, all called Cissie Colpitts--experience dissatisfaction with their husbands and cause them to drown. The local coroner, an inveterate game-player called Madgett (Bernard Hill), is drawn into a plot to disguise the murders.
Drowning by Numbers (1988) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
