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The Piano
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Title: The Piano

Release Date: 18 May 1993

Runtime: 2h

Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: New South Wales Film & Television Office, Jan Chapman Productions, Australian Film Commission, CiBy 2000

Production Companies: New South Wales Film & Television Office, Jan Chapman Productions, Australian Film Commission, CiBy 2000

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.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 7.383 (1498 votes)

Cast

  • Ada McGrath: Holly Hunter
  • George Baines: Harvey Keitel
  • Alisdair Stewart: Sam Neill
  • Flora McGrath: Anna Paquin
  • Mana: Cliff Curtis
  • Aunt Morag: Kerry Walker
  • Reverend: Ian Mune
  • Nessie: Geneviève Lemon
  • Hone: Pete Smith
  • Blind Piano Tuner: Bruce Allpress
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