The Piano (1993)

Movie Details

Original Title The Piano

Original Language EN

Budget $7,000,000

Revenue $40,200,000

Status Released

Popularity 1.9

Cast

Holly Hunter

Ada McGrath

Popularity: 2.7

Harvey Keitel

George Baines

Popularity: 10.4

Sam Neill

Alisdair Stewart

Popularity: 12.7

Anna Paquin

Flora McGrath

Popularity: 1.7

Cliff Curtis

Mana

Popularity: 3.0

Kerry Walker

Aunt Morag

Popularity: 2.0

Ian Mune

Reverend

Popularity: 0.5

Geneviève Lemon

Nessie

Popularity: 1.1

Pete Smith

Hone

Popularity: 0.7

Bruce Allpress

Blind Piano Tuner

Popularity: 6.4

Rose McIver

Angel

Popularity: 11.2

Verity George

Bluebeard's Wife

Popularity: 0.1

Key Crew

Editor Veronika Jenet

Director Jane Campion

Screenplay Jane Campion

Producer Jan Chapman

Executive Producer Alain Depardieu

Production

CiBy 2000

Jan Chapman Productions

Videos & Trailers

Jane Campion's THE PIANO 🎹 - Video Essay by the Cinema Cartography

Featurette

Official 25th Anniversary Trailer

Trailer

Image Gallery

Backdrops

Posters

Keywords

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Reviews from TMDB

CRCulver 6/10

Feb 18, 2018

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 virtuoso pianis ... Read more

Filipe Manuel Neto 9/10

Oct 20, 2022

**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 characters. Ho ... Read more

CinemaSerf 7/10

May 16, 2023

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 neighbour "Baines" (Ha ... Read more