The Piano (1993)
A mute woman is sent to 1850s New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, but is soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.
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Ada McGrath -
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Hira
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Reverend -
Head Seaman
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Chief Nihe
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Hone -
Blind Piano Tuner -
Mana -
Heni (Mission Girl)
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Mere (Mission Girl)
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After Lina Wertmüller for Seven Beauties (1975), Jane Campion was only the second woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, and the first for an English language film, as the earlier film was Italian. The only other women to be so nominated are Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation (2003), Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker (2008), and Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird (2017). Bigelow is the only one of the five to have won the award.
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Ada:
The voice you hear is not my speaking voice - -but my mind's voice. I have not spoken since I was six years old. No one knows why - -not even me. My father says it is a dark talent, and the day I take it into my head to stop breathing will be my ...
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Pianos of the period portrayed in the film were made almost entirely of wood, no metal framing at all, and the piano would therefore float, not sink.
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Delft WaltzMichael Nyman
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Genres
Drama | Music | RomanceDetails
Release Date:
11 February 1994Language
English, British Sign Language, Maori
Country of Origin
New Zealand, Australia, FranceFilming Locations
Auckland, New ZealandBox Office
Budget:
$7,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend USA:
$151,419 14 November 1993
Gross USA:
$40,157,856
Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$40,168,956
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