The Piano (1993)

1993 · 120 min · Drama, Romance

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.

Directed by Jane Campion. Starring Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin and Cliff Curtis.

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