May 18, 1993
120 min
Full-HD

The Piano (1993)

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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Category

Drama Romance

Country

New Zealand Australia France

Companies

CiBy 2000 Jan Chapman Productions

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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