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Drowning by Numbers

7.0 119 mins Comedy   Crime   Drama   1988
Stimuleringsfonds Nederlandse Culturele Omroepproducties   Elsevier-Vendex Film Beheer   Allarts Production   Film4 Productions   VPRO  
Director(s): Peter Greenaway

Release Date: 10 Sat, Sep 1988

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.

Casts of Drowning by Numbers

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

Trevor Cooper

as Hardy

David Morrissey

as Bellamy

John Rogan

as Gregory

Paul Mooney

as Teigan

Jane Gurnett

as Nancy

Kenny Ireland

as Jonah Bognor

Michael Percival

as Moses Bognor

Joanna Dickens

as Mrs. Hardy

Janine Duvitski

as Marina Bellamy

Michael Fitzgerald

as Mr. 70 Van Dyke

Edward Tudor-Pole

as Mr. 71 Van Dyke

Natalie Morse

as The Skipping Girl

Arthur Spreckley

as Sid the Gravedigger

Ian Talbot

as The Police Detective

Roderic Leigh

as The Policeman

Vanni Corbellini

as The Hare

Jose Berg

as Skipping Girl's Mother

Peter Jaques

as Priest (uncredited)

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