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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
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
Oct 11, 2019. Apr 9, 2019. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Cissie Colpitts (Joan Plowright) drowns her cheating husband and in the ensuing cover-up enlists the help of lonely coroner Henry Madgett...
- (16)
- Peter Greenaway
- R
- Bernard Hill
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Jun 7, 1991 · Drowning By Numbers. Roger Ebert June 07, 1991. Tweet. Now streaming on: 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.
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.
- 118 min
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.
Overview. Three generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings. Peter Greenaway. Director, Writer. Joan Plowright. Juliet Stevenson. Joely Richardson. Bernard Hill. Bryan Pringle. Trevor Cooper. David Morrissey. John Rogan. Jane Gurnett. View More. Reviews.