The Piano

About The Piano

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited pre-teen daughter Flora to the wilderness of 19th-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.

The Piano is a 1993 romance film directed by Jane Campion. At 120 minutes long, it arrived in May 1993.

The film is filed under adultery, beach, intimate, and forbidden love.

Holly Hunter appears as Ada McGrath, Harvey Keitel as George Baines, Sam Neill as Alisdair Stewart, and Anna Paquin as Flora McGrath. The screenplay is by Jane Campion. Produced by CiBy 2000.

Autumn Sonata, Corpse Bride, and Dances with Wolves make useful companions to The Piano, all filed under dramatic and intense. TMDB voters put it at 7.4 out of 10 across 1,694 votes and it carries a R rating.