Trivia for
Drowning by Numbers (1988) More at IMDbPro »

• All the numbers between 1-100 appear during the course of the film (not in sequence though).
  
  
• First cinema film of Juliet Stevenson.
  
  
• According to Peter Greenaway, there are 100 things beginning with the letter 'S' in Smut's room and, 100 things beginning with the letter 'M' in Madgett's room
  
  
• The license number plate on Madgett's car is NID-26 B/W, same as the crashed car in the beginning of A Zed & Two Noughts (1985).
  
  
• The runner throwing streamers as he runs along is actually based on a real, popular game in England also known as 'Paper Chase' A.K.A 'Hare And Hounds': with the runner (Hare) leaving streamers in his wake just as a hare leaves a scent, as such the hounds will track him down based on the streamers (scent).
  
  
• The painting in Madgett's room is that of Peter Bruegel's 'Children's Games (1560)'.
  
  
• The composition of the shot of Hardy's death mimics the painting by Andrea Mantegna called 'The Lamentation Over A Dead Christ (1480)'.
  
  
• First full length feature film of David Morrissey.
  
  

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