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The Piano (1993) 7.6
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7.6/10 from 55,475 users
Metascore: 89/100
Reviews: 230 user | 77 critic | 20 from Metacritic.com A mute woman along with her young daughter, and her prized piano, are sent to 1850s New Zealand for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, and she's soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation. Director:Jane CampionWriter:Jane Campion |
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Aunt Morag
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Geneviève Lemon | ... |
Nessie
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Tungia Baker | ... |
Hira
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Ian Mune | ... |
Reverend
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Head Seaman
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Te Whatanui Skipwith | ... |
Chief Nihe
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Pete Smith | ... |
Hone
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Blind Piano Tuner
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Mana
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Carla Rupuha | ... |
Heni - Mission Girl
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Mahina Tunui | ... |
Mere - Mission Girl
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It is the mid-nineteenth century. Ada is a mute who has a young daughter, Flora. In an arranged marriage she leaves her native Scotland accompanied by her daughter and her beloved piano. Life in the rugged forests of New Zealand's North Island is not all she may have imagined and nor is her relationship with her new husband Stewart. She suffers torment and loss when Stewart sells her piano to a neighbour, George. Ada learns from George that she may earn back her piano by giving him piano lessons, but only with certain other conditions attached. At first Ada despises George but slowly their relationship is transformed and this propels them into a dire situation. Written by &view=simple&sort=alpha">Patrick Dominick <ptd@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au>
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Release Date:
19 November 1993 (Canada) See more »Also Known As:
Piano See more »Box Office
Budget:
$7,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£2,301,338 (UK) (10 December 1993)Gross:
£3,512,343 (UK) (4 February 1994)Company Credits
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1.85 : 1
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Ada: The voice you hear is not my speaking voice - -but my mind's voice. I have not spoken since I was six years old. No one knows why - -not even me. My father says it is a dark talent, and the day I take it into my head to stop breathing will be my last. Today he married me to a man I have not yet met. Soon my daughter and I shall join him in his own country. My husband writes that my muteness does not bother him - and hark this! He says, "God loves dumb creatures, so why not I?" '...
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When Ada and George go to the beach to retrieve the piano, Flora creates a seahorse from sand and shells/stones. There are no footprints around the seahorse where she would have walked while creating it, See more »Quotes
[first lines]Ada: The voice you hear is not my speaking voice - -but my mind's voice. I have not spoken since I was six years old. No one knows why - -not even me. My father says it is a dark talent, and the day I take it into my head to stop breathing will be my last. Today he married me to a man I have not yet met. Soon my daughter and I shall join him in his own country. My husband writes that my muteness does not bother him - and hark this! He says, "God loves dumb creatures, so why not I?" '...
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The Piano is a beautiful film in many different respects. In terms of cinematography, I've seen few like it. It is dark and beautiful and compelling. The story seems, on paper, as a torrid love story without much originality. But the sensuous portrayal of Harvey Keitel and Holly Hunter and the complex acting of a young Anna Paquin allow this story to ring true. I was skeptical upon viewing a film so lauded by critics and film snobs, but found myself both moved and connected to the film that holds strangely relevant themes for modern times. It is rare that I love both a film's visual beauty and it's script as well. This is that rare occasion.