Poster from TMDB
Drowning by Numbers
Sign in to save1988 film by Peter Greenaway
OverviewAI-generated
Drowning by Numbers is a 1988 British-Netherlandish drama, comedy, and crime film directed and written by Peter Greenaway. The film features Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson, and Bernard Hill, with Sacha Vierny serving as director of photography. It follows The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and is set in Suffolk. The narrative involves three women and a coroner within a dysfunctional family context.
The production involved companies including Stimuleringsfonds Nederlandse Culturele Omroepproducties, Elsevier-Vendex Film Beheer, Allarts Production, Film4 Productions, and VPRO. With a budget of 1,500,000, the film grossed 424,773. It has an R rating and received three wins and one nomination. Critical reception includes an IMDb rating of 7.1 from 11,411 votes and an 88% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The runtime is listed as 118 or 119 minutes.
Synthesized by Vinony from 36 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, TMDb, OMDb, IMDb. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Film · TMDB
7.0Cissie 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.
Cast
- Joan Plowright as Cissie Colpitts
- Juliet Stevenson as Cissie Colpitts (Daughter)
- Joely Richardson as Cissie Colpitts (Granddaughter)
- Bernard Hill as Henry Madgett
- Jason Edwards as Smut
- Bryan Pringle as Jake
Themes
- drowning
- dark comedy
- dysfunctional family
- avant-garde
- coroner
- suffolk, england
- independent film
- experimental film
- crime comedy
- widowhood
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
Ratings
IMDb
7.1/10
11,411 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
88%
- Year
- 1988
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 3 wins & 1 nomination total
via OMDb · IMDb
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country of origin
- Netherlands
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Peter Greenaway
- Screenwriter
- Peter Greenaway
- Cast member
- Vanni Corbellini
- Composer
- Q313639
- Cinematographer
- Sacha Vierny
- Narrative location
- Suffolk
- Duration
- 118
- FilmAffinity ID
- 191036
- Performer
- Q313639
Show 3 more facts
- publication date
- 1989-01-27
- title
- Drowning by Numbers
- review score
- 88%
via Wikidata · CC0