The Piano (1993)
15
29/10/1993 (GB)
Drama, Romance
2h 0m
- 74% (1534 votes)
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Overview
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.
- Jane CampionDirector, Screenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$7,000,000
Revenue
$40,200,000
Keywords
- adultery
- secret love
- beach
- jealousy
- love triangle
- isolation
- culture clash
- sexuality
- arranged marriage
- strangeness
- violent husband
- new zealand
- maori
- settler
- wilderness
- mute
- pianist
- playing piano
- woman director
- sign languages
- piano
- 19th century
- severed finger
- mother daughter relationship
Top Billed Cast
Holly Hunter
Ada McGrath
Harvey Keitel
George Baines
Sam Neill
Alisdair Stewart
Anna Paquin
Flora McGrath
Cliff Curtis
Mana
Kerry Walker
Aunt Morag
Ian Mune
Reverend
Geneviève Lemon
Nessie
Pete Smith
Hone
Bruce Allpress
Blind Piano Tuner
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