Drowning by Numbers

  • Comedy
  • Crime
9/10/1988
119
R

Three Women And A Coroner.

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

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  • Geronimo1967

    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" (Juliet Stephenson) who has "Cissie (Joely Richardson) and none of these women make matches that they want to endure. There's plenty of philandering going on, so - well use the title as a clue as to just what happens now... This is a strongly characterised drama with three women very much at the top of their game, ably supported by Bernard Hill's rather ...

    August 9, 2023

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