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Overview

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Director:
Peter Greenaway
Writer:
Peter Greenaway (written by)
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Release Date:
June 1991 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Tagline:
The great death game.
Plot:
Tired of her husband's philanderous ways, the mother of two daughters drowns her husband. With the reluctant help of the local coroner... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
3 wins & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Joan Plowright ... Cissie Colpitts 1

Juliet Stevenson ... Cissie Colpitts 2

Joely Richardson ... Cissie Colpitts 3

Bernard Hill ... Madgett
Jason Edwards ... Smut
Bryan Pringle ... Jake
Trevor Cooper ... Hardy

David Morrissey ... Bellamy
John Rogan ... Gregory
Paul Mooney ... Teigan
Jane Gurnett ... Nancy
Kenny Ireland ... Jonah Bognor
Michael Percival ... Moses Bognor
Joanna Dickens ... Mrs. Hardy
Janine Duvitski ... Marina Bellamy
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Additional Details

Runtime:
118 min
Country:
UK | Netherlands
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Filming Locations:
Suffolk, England, UK

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Trivia:
The composition of the shot of Hardy's death mimics the painting by Andrea Mantegna called 'The Lamentation Over A Dead Christ (1480)'. more
Quotes:
Smut: The object of this game is to dare to fall with a noose around your neck from a place sufficiently high enough off the ground, such that the fall will hang you. The object of the game is to punish those who have caused great unhappiness by their selfish actions. This is the best game of all, because the winner is also the loser, and the judge's decision is always final. more
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References The Falls (1980) more
Soundtrack:
2nd Movement of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra K354 more

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19 out of 22 people found the following comment useful:-
Games, 22 July 2000
Author: tedg (tedg@FilmsFolded.com) from Virginia Beach

One woman in three bodies. Games about death, with death as a rule, and as a consequence. Life as this game and vice versa. The scoring of the game, the ruling of the script according to numbers. Sequential skipping through the numbers as a way of adumbrating the game to tell a story.

Another masterpiece from Greenaway, his most accessible in my view. But that makes it a lesser work compared to his others, because the story is perfectly comprehensible. One can see how his notion of structured visual allegory with narrative footnotes starts to emerge here. The latest I have seen at this writing is The Pillow Book where this is all so much more elaborate and integrated into the narrative. But this film still charms. I wish I could personally thank the financier.

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