Overview:
A mute Scottish woman arrives in colonial New Zealand for an arranged marriage. Her husband refuses to move her beloved piano, giving it to neighbor George Baines, who agrees to return the piano in exchange for lessons. As desire swirls around the duo, the wilderness consumes the European enclave.| Status: | Released (1993-05-18) |
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| Awards: | Won 3 Oscars. 65 wins & 56 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $40,157,856 |
| Screen: | Jane Campion |
| Productions: | New South Wales Film & Television Office, Jan Chapman Productions, Australian Film Commission, CiBy 2000 |
| Production Countries: | New Zealand, Australia, France |
| Spoken Languages: | English, |
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Casts
- 18686: Holly Hunter - Ada McGrath
- 1037: Harvey Keitel - George Baines
- 4783: Sam Neill - Alisdair Stewart
- 10690: Anna Paquin - Flora McGrath
- 7248: Cliff Curtis - Mana
- 10756: Kerry Walker - Aunt Morag
- 7255: Ian Mune - Reverend
Crews
- 10757: Jane Campion - Director - Directing
- 10757: Jane Campion - Screenplay - Writing
- 10759: Michael Nyman - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 7262: Stuart Dryburgh - Director of Photography - Camera
- 10762: Veronika Jenet - Editor - Editing
- 19872: Andrew McAlpine - Production Design - Art
- 1046700: Gregory P. Keen - Art Direction - Art
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Reviews
CRCulver
Review text:
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 ....
Continue reading ->Filipe Manuel Neto
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**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 ch ....
Continue reading ->CinemaSerf
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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 neighb ....
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