Drowning by Numbers

Drowning by Numbers

1988 · 119 min · EN · R · 7.0 (140 votes)
Dir. Peter Greenaway · Starring Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson, Bernard Hill, Jason Edwards, Bryan Pringle · Music Michael Nyman
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Three related women, all named Cissie Colpitts, share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings. The local coroner is in love with all three women and helps to disguise the murders.

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A darkly funny, off-kilter British caper. It’s a wry, melancholic look at life, death, and the absurd lengths people go to for inheritance, all wrapped in a quirky, period aesthetic.

quirkydarkwrymelancholicsteadyquirky British comedydarkly comedicperiod piecedeathinheritancefemale solidarityabsurdity
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