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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.
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Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. 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...
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Jun 7, 1991 · The characters in “Drowning by Numbers” are all completely credible people, who speak in ordinary English and inhabit a real landscape (except for the numbers), and behave in ways that would not shock the reader of a mystery novel.
Drowning by Numbers cleverly plays with the way we treat folklore, structure, and rules, even down to the very medium Greenaway works with.
Three generations of women share the same problem--marriage woes--and want to put an end to it. Tired of her husband's philandering ways, the mother of a daughter and a niece who all have the same name, Cissie Colpitts, drowns her husband.
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. 204 IMDb 7.1 1 h 58 min 1991.
