Drowning by Numbers (1988)

R09/10/1988Comedy, Crime, Drama1h 59m
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Three Women And A Coroner.

Overview

Three generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Joan Plowright

    Cissie Colpitts 1

  2. Cast 1

    Juliet Stevenson

    Cissie Colpitts 2

  3. Cast 1

    Joely Richardson

    Cissie Colpitts 3

  4. Cast 1

    Bernard Hill

    Madgett

  5. Jason Edwards

    Smut

  6. Cast 1

    Bryan Pringle

    Jake

  7. Cast 1

    Trevor Cooper

    Hardy

  8. Cast 1

    David Morrissey

    Bellamy

  9. Cast 1

    John Rogan

    Gregory

I actually found this to be one of Peter Greenaway's more accessible films. Though it's still riddled with some surreal imagery that made little, if any, sense to me, it is quite an effective and funny look at the institution of marriage. Now the Colpitts family can't really be accused of having much imagination when it comes to naming their offspring. "Cissie" (Joan Plowright) has "Cissie" (Juliet Stephenson) who has "Cissie (Joely Richardson) and none of these women make matches that they want to endure. There's plenty of philandering going on, so - well use the title as a clue as to just wh...

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Original LanguageEnglish 

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