8.5 Score

1993 • 2h • R • Drama, Romance

The Piano

"Silence affects everyone in the end."

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.

IMDb 7.5

RT 90%

MC 89

Director

Jane Campion

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Jane Campion

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Michael Nyman

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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

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