Movie
The Piano
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1993-05-18
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- CiBy 2000, Jan Chapman Productions
- Country
- Australia, France
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Holly Hunter as Ada McGrath
- Harvey Keitel as George Baines
- Sam Neill as Alisdair Stewart
- Anna Paquin as Flora McGrath
- Cliff Curtis as Mana
- Kerry Walker as Aunt Morag
- Ian Mune as Reverend
- Geneviève Lemon as Nessie
- Pete Smith as Hone
- Bruce Allpress as Blind Piano Tuner
- Rose McIver as Angel
- Verity George as Bluebeard's Wife
Crew
- Jane Campion - Director
- Jane Campion - Writer
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