

The Piano
Silence affects everyone in the end.
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $7M
- Box office
- $40.2M
- Language
- English
- adultery
- secret love
- beach
- jealousy
- love triangle
- isolation
- culture clash
- sexuality
- arranged marriage
- strangeness
- violent husband
- new zealand
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR12 Nov 1993
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1529 Oct 1993
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalMA15+15 Jun 1993
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical15+11 Feb 1994
EstoniaEE
- Theatrical11 Nov 1994
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1627 Aug 1993
FranceFR
- PremiereCannes Film Festival15 May 1993
- TheatricalTP19 May 1993
- PhysicalVHS8 Sept 1994
- PhysicalDVD18 May 1999
- Digital / OTTVOD14 Jun 2011
- PhysicalBlu-Ray2 May 2013
- TheatricalTPRe-release29 Nov 2017
- Digital / OTT16Netflix1 Dec 2021
- Digital / OTTFrance•tv14 May 2026
- TVFrance•512 Jun 2026
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1211 Aug 1993
IrelandIE
- Theatrical1512 Nov 1993
ItalyIT
- Theatrical18 May 1993
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical1222 Jul 1993
PortugalPT
- TheatricalM/168 Oct 1993
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The Piano was released on 18 May 1993.
Audience reviews
3- C6/10
CRCulver
2/18/2018
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 pianist and her cherished instrument is one way she communicates her feelings to the world. As Ada and her illegitimate daught…
- F9/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
10/20/2022
**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. However, the film is very good, it's engaging, captivating and really deserves to be brought back these days. Winner of three …
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
5/16/2023
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" (Harvey Keitel) though, and he engineers a land for piano swap with her husband as a prelude to inviting her round to his h…
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