Year: 1988
Genre:
Comedy, Drama
Category: Movie
IMDB Rating: 7,2 (NEVAZUT)
Country: UK, Netherlands
Language: English
Director: Peter Greenaway
Writer: Peter Greenaway
Composer: Michael Nyman
Producer: Peter Jaques, Kees Kasander, Denis Wigman
Actors: Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson, Bernard Hill, Jason Edwards, Bryan Pringle, Trevor Cooper, David Morrissey, John Rogan, Paul Mooney, Jane Gurnett, Kenny Ireland, Michael Percival, Joanna Dickens, Janine Duvitski, Michael Fitzgerald, Edward Tudor-Pole, Natalie Morse, Arthur Spreckley, Ian Talbot, Roderic Leigh, Vanni Corbellini, Jose Berg, Peter Jaques
Description: Tired of her husband's philandering ways, the mother of two daughters drowns her husband. With the reluctant help of the local coroner, the murder is covered up. Her daughters are having similar problems with relationships, and tend to follow their mother's example, and the coroner becomes reluctantly involved in their murders as well. As the plot progresses, visual and spoken numbers appear in the scenes, counting from one to one hundred.
Comments: Three generations of women all share the same problem: marriage woes, and they want to put an end to it. ------- Tired of her husband's philandering ways, the mother of two daughters drowns her husband. With the reluctant help of the local coroner, the murder is covered up. Her daughters are having similar problems with relationships, and tend to follow their mother's example, and the coroner becomes reluctantly involved in their murders as well. As the plot progresses, visual and spoken numbers appear in the scenes, counting from one to one hundred. ------- Three generations of women, a mother, her daughter, and her niece - all called Cissie Colpitts - experience dissatisfaction with their husbands and cause them to drown. The local coroner, an inveterate game player called Madgett (Bernard Hill), is drawn into a plot to disguise the murders. The story is paced by the numbers one to one hundred, which appear sequentially through this movie.
Duration: 118 minutes (at 25 frames per second)
File path: Z:\05882. Drowning by Numbers (1988)\Drowning by Numbers (1988).avi
Filesize: 1053 MB
Video: XviD - resolution: 608x432 - quality: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
Audio:
Subtitles: Serbian