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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. [3] Plot. The film's plot centres on three married women — a grandmother, her daughter, and her niece — each named Cissie Colpitts.
- Kees Kasander, Denis Wigman
- Michael Nyman
- 10 September 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.
- (11K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Peter Greenaway
- 1991-06
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...
- (154)
- Peter Greenaway
- R
- Bernard Hill
Jun 7, 1991 · Powered by JustWatch. 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 ...
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.
Jake Cole Slant Magazine. TOP CRITIC. Peter Greenaway’s Drowning by Numbers is perhaps the most direct illustration of the filmmaker’s key thematic and aesthetic interest in ascribing...
Jan 1, 1988 · Dec 31, 1987 11:00pm PT. 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...
