Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Drowning by numbers / Film Four International and Elsevier Vendex Film present an Allarts production of a Peter Greenaway film ; producers, Kees Kasander & Denis Wigman ; written & directed by Peter Greenaway.

Publisher, Date:

Fort Wayne, IN : Hen's Tooth Video, [2015]

Description:

1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

Three generations of women, all with the same name, rid themselves of their unwanted husbands one by one and each in the same way: they drown them. The local coroner agrees to declare each of the deaths accidental in return for sexual favors. But when things don't go exactly as planned, he devises a final game that could result in the undoing of them all.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: R; for numerous scenes of nudity and sensuality.

Subjects:

Women murderers -- Drama.

Drowning victims -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Dark comedy films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Greenaway, Peter, film director, screenwriter.