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  1. 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.

  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. [3] Plot. The film opens with a little girl jumping rope and counting stars to "a hundred".

  3. 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...

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  4. Visit the movie page for 'Drowning by Numbers' on Moviefone. Discover the movie's synopsis, cast details and release date. Watch trailers, exclusive interviews, and movie review.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

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