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Drowning by Numbers

Three Women And A Coroner.

7.0 / 10

119 minutes

1988-09-10

English

NL

Actors :

Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson, Bernard Hill, Jason Edwards, Bryan Pringle, Trevor Cooper, David Morrissey, John Rogan, Paul Mooney, Jane Gurnett, Kenny Ireland, Michael Percival, Joanna Dickens, Janine Duvitski

Description

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

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

8/9/2023, 11:19:48 AM

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" (Julie...