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Drowning by Numbers

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Drowning by Numbers
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R,2hrs 1min
Genres:
Comedy,Drama
Release:
1988
Director:
Peter Greenaway
Starring:
Bernard Hill, Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson  ...more
Synopsis: Peter Greenaway wrote and directed this typically surreal and iconoclastic black comedy. Three generations of women who share the same name -- 63-year-old Cissie Colpitts (Joan Plowright), her daughter Cissie Colpitts II (Juliet Stevenson), and granddaughter Cissie Colpitts III (Joely Richardson) -- have all discovered the same way of dealing with their marital problems. The senior Cissie has drowned her husband Jake (Bryan Pringle) in the bathtub, her daughter sent her spouse Hardy (Trevor Cooper) ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Hastings, AMG Review
Iconoclast Peter Greenaway achieved his biggest crossover success at the time with this tidy, baroque rumination on marriage, deceit, and sisterhood. The result is something of a primer for anyone unfamiliar with Greenaway's work: there is the director's obsession with forms, patterns, and numbers; his fascination with women and sexuality; and his strong taste for all things gruesome, scatological, ... Full Review
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Bernard Hill
Henry Madgett
Joan Plowright
1st Cissie Colpitts
Juliet Stevenson
2nd Cissie Colpitts
Joely Richardson
3rd Cissie Colpitts
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