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Netherlands. Language. English. Budget. £1,020,000 [1] Box office. $424,773 [2] 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.
Drowning by Numbers. 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 ...
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Jun 7, 1991 · Edited by. The best way to review “Drowning by Numbers” is by simple description. Here is a movie so personal and quirky that perhaps you will enjoy it more than I did, and I do not want to spoil your fun, since the movie is playful above everything else. The film opens with a little girl playing a counting game with the stars in the sky.
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. The story is paced by the numbers one to 100, which ...
Drowning By Numbers. 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. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 ...
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Drowning by Numbers. 2023 · 1 hr 59 min. R. Comedy · Drama. An unsettling salvo of sumptuous visuals, macabre capers and numerical mischief about three generations of women who murder their husbands. Audio Languages: English. Subtitles: English. Starring: Jane Gurnett Kenny Ireland Paul Mooney John Rogan David Morrissey Trevor Cooper Jason ...
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Drowning By Numbers. Details: 1988, Rest of the world, Cert 18, 118 mins. Direction: Peter Greenaway. Genre: Drama. Summary: Off the wall arthouse murder farce with lots of numbers in it. With ...
Jan 1, 1988 · Drowning by Numbers deals with metaphorical game-playing of sex and death in the best traditions of black humor, all set in an idyllic English summer, and pays tribute to the games, landscape and ...
Drowning by Numbers chronicles how the murder of one man leads to a sinister chain reaction in a visually stunning yet otherwise unconventional small town. With exquisite, colorful cinematography and set design, Greenaway ensured that the whole experience be a top-notch visual treat even without its twisted story.
Jonathan Carney. Solo Violist ("Sinfonia Concertante") Felicity Cottrell. Foley Artist. David H Cunningham. Music Producer. Constance Devos. Set Dresser. Walter Donohue.
Jul 30, 2019 · 1988 Drowning by NumbersCategory: Comedy, Drama Production: Film Four InternationalDirector: Peter GreenawayCast:Joan Plowright ... Cissie Colpitts 1Jul...
Mar 23, 2017 · Peter Greenaway – Drowning by Numbers (1988) Following his pair of despairing urban studies, A Zed and Two Noughts and The Belly of an Architect, director Peter Greenaway turned to the sardonic countryside of The Draughtsman’s Contract for another tongue-in-cheek murder yarn, Drowning by Numbers. Easily his most playful film in every sense ...
Critics reviews. A curious tale of three women of the same name, whose solidarity for one another brings about three copy-cat drownings. Their husbands are the victims and the motive is dissatisfaction. The women are confident that their crimes will not be punished because they have in tow a coroner who loves them.
Jun 6, 2012 · A film by Peter GreenawayTrailer edited by me.I wasn't particularly fond of the original trailer made for this film. It didn't capture the mood of the film o...
Drowning by Numbers ★★★½ 1987 (R)Three generations of women, each named Cissie Colpitts, solve their marital problems by drowning their husbands and making deals with a bizarre coroner. Further strange visions from director Greenaway, complemented by stunning cinematography courtesy of Sacha Vierny.
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Mar 28, 2016 · The numbers are often written, sometimes spoken. Three of them appear on runner’s jerseys. Two are painted on bees. I missed some, but most are easy to spot. When 100 arrives, it’s in the last shot of the film, the scene of the final death. Death is the prime subject of Drowning By Numbers. The murders, the lonely life of the coronor, Smut ...
