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Release Date
• USA: Nov 12, 1993
DVD Release Date
• R1: Jan 20, 1998
Budget $7,000,000
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
2 hours, 1 minute
Country Australia, New Zealand, France
Studio CiBy 2000
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Other Titles
• The Piano
• The Black Keys (1992)
• The Piano Lesson (1993)
• Pleasure (1992)
• Das Piano (1993)
• La Leçon de piano
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Genre: Romance, Drama, Love Triangle, Psychodrama, Racy, Infidelity, Cult Classic, Love, Erotic, Period Piece
Plot: This controversially erotic film from New Zealand established screenwriter-director Jane Campion as a universally recognized talent. Holly Hunter stars as Ada, a mute 19th-century woman sent to New Zealand in an arranged marriage with a patriarchal landowner (Sam Neill). She brings along her daughter, Flora (Anna Paquin), and tries to also bring her beloved piano, much to the consternation of her new husband, who abandons the piano on a beach. Artistically and emotionally frustrated, Ada finds herself experiencing an erotic awakening when Baines (Harvey Keitel), an illiterate settler covered with Maori tattoos, rescues her piano, buys it from her husband, then strikes a strange bargain with Ada that gradually leads to her sexual awakening--and to an explosive confrontation.Jaw-droppingly beautfiul with its purple and green palette of untamed New Zealand scenery, THE PIANO is both a ravishing love story and a psychosexual fairy tale on a par with WUTHERING HEIGHTS and JANE EYRE. Featuring a haunting piano score by Michael Nyman and brilliant performances, THE PIANO is a masterpiece, considered one of the best films of the 1990s.
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Holly Hunter
The Incredibles, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona |
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Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park III, The Hunt for Red October |
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Michael Nyman
Gattaca, Ravenous, The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover |
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