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Three generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings.
Plot. The film opens with a little girl jumping rope and counting stars to "a hundred". The film's plot centres on three married women — a grandmother, her daughter, and her niece — each named Cissie Colpitts. As the story progresses, each woman successively drowns her husband.
Drowning by Numbers: Directed by Peter Greenaway. With Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson, Bernard Hill. Three generations of women share the same problem--marriage woes--and want to put an end to it.
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- Peter Greenaway
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- 3 min
Cissie Colpitts (Joan Plowright) drowns her cheating husband and in the ensuing cover-up enlists the help of lonely coroner Henry Madgett (Bernard Hill), an old friend with a longstanding...
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- Peter Greenaway
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- Bernard Hill
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Oct 5, 2018 · In the thirty years since Drowning by Numbers, you’ve had an incredibly broad career, ranging across the worlds of film, opera and painting. Looking back at the film, how do you see it now, and how it fits into the broader picture of your body of work?
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