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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.
- 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
May 4, 2022 Full Review Brian D. Johnson Maclean's Magazine Drowning by Numbers is a surreal, satirical descent to the dark side of English gamesmanship. It is a brilliant black comedy.
- (16)
- Peter Greenaway
- R
- Bernard Hill
Jun 7, 1991 · 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. It is impossible to follow her entire litany, but I’m ...
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 is a surreal, satirical descent to the dark side of English gamesmanship. It is a brilliant black comedy. Full Review | Oct 11, 2019. Hilary Mantel The Spectator. It never ...
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 ...
