Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- Netherlands, United Kingdom
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
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.
- drowning
- dark comedy
- dysfunctional family
- avant-garde
- coroner
- suffolk
- england
- independent film
- experimental film
- crime comedy
- widowhood
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Joan Plowright
Cissie Colpitts
Juliet Stevenson
Cissie Colpitts (Daughter)
Joely Richardson
Cissie Colpitts (Granddaughter)
Bernard Hill
Henry 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
- Directed
- Peter Greenaway
- Written
- Peter Greenaway
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 197 ratings
- Studio
- Stimuleringsfonds Nederlandse Culturele Omroepproducties, Elsevier-Vendex Film Beheer, Allarts Production, Film4 Productions, VPRO
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
