Drowning by Numbers

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1991-06-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, Netherlands

Runtime:

118 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (5772 Reviews)

Director:

Peter Greenaway

Genres:

Comedy Drama

Cast:

Joan Plowright Juliet Stevenson Joely Richardson Bernard Hill

Writer:

Peter Greenaway

Fullplot:

Tired of her husband's philanderous ways, the mother of two daughters drowns her husband. With the reluctant help of the local coroner, the murder is obscured. Her daughters are having similar problems with relationships, and tend to follow their mother's example, and the coroner becomes reluctantly duplicitous. As the plot progresses, visual and spoken numbers appear in the scenes, counting from one to 100.

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