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The Piano
The Piano

The Piano

1993 120 min ★ 7.4 Drama, Romance

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.

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Cast

Holly Hunter

Holly Hunter

Ada McGrath

Harvey Keitel

Harvey Keitel

George Baines

Sam Neill

Sam Neill

Alisdair Stewart

Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin

Flora McGrath

Cliff Curtis

Cliff Curtis

Mana

Kerry Walker

Kerry Walker

Aunt Morag

Ian Mune

Ian Mune

Reverend

Geneviève Lemon

Geneviève Lemon

Nessie

Pete Smith

Pete Smith

Hone

Bruce Allpress

Bruce Allpress

Blind Piano Tuner

Details

Director

Jane Campion

Tagline

"Silence affects everyone in the end."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$7,000,000

Revenue

$40,200,000

Production

CiBy 2000, Jan Chapman Productions

Reviews

C

CRCulver

February 18, 2018

★ 6/10

Jane Campion's third feature film, THE PIANO is a historical drama that tells of a Scottish woman, Ada McGrath (Holly Hunter), who is married off to a colonist in New Zealand that she has never met. Ada is mute, a development that mysteriously came upon her in childhood, but she is a virtuoso pianist and her cherished instrument is one way she communicates her feelings to the world. As Ada and her...

F

Filipe Manuel Neto

October 20, 2022

★ 9/10

**A great movie.** For me, this is one of the great films of 1993. The story is not pretty, and we could almost call it “love in times of mud”, not only because of the continuous rain and the amount of mud on the set, but mainly because of the rudeness and brutality of the male characters. However, the film is very good, it's engaging, captivating and really deserves to be brought back these da...

C

CinemaSerf

May 16, 2023

★ 7/10

Holly Hunter is on good form here as "Ada", a mute who is adept with her piano. Soon to be married to a Kiwi farmer, she sails with her daughter to his remote home where he "Alisdair" (Sam Neill) seems to be rather indifferent to her presence. The same cannot be said for their neighbour "Baines" (Harvey Keitel) though, and he engineers a land for piano swap with her husband as a prelude to invitin...

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