Drowning by Numbers
ComedyCrimeDrama
7/10
|NLGB
|en
|119 min
Release Date: 1988-09-02
Overview - Cissie Colpitts drowns her cheating husband and, in the ensuing cover-up, enlists the help of lonely coroner Henry Madgett, an old friend with a longstanding weakness for her charms. But when Cissie's daughter and granddaughter—both also named Cissie Colpitts—decide to resort to the same methods for solving conflicts with their own frustrating husbands, the women and their repeated appeals for help begin to wear on Madgett's conscience.
Production Companies
Stimuleringsfonds Nederlandse Culturele OmroepproductiesElsevier-Vendex Film BeheerAllarts ProductionFilm4 ProductionsVPRO
User Reviews
CinemaSerf
7/10
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...
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