Drowning by Numbers (1988)

Directors

Peter Greenaway

Cast

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

The story

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.

Genres

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