The Piano
“Silence affects everyone in the end.”
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-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.
Genres
Drama, Romance
Studio
CiBy 2000
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Piano performed
Budget
$7.0M
Worldwide Gross
$40.2M
Gross Profit
$33.2M
Return
5.7× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$6M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
Cast
Ada McGrath
Holly Hunter
Ada McGrath
George Baines
Harvey Keitel
George Baines
Alisdair Stewart
Sam Neill
Alisdair Stewart
Flora McGrath
Anna Paquin
Flora McGrath
Mana
Cliff Curtis
Mana
Aunt Morag
Kerry Walker
Aunt Morag
Reverend
Ian Mune
Reverend
Nessie
Geneviève Lemon
Nessie
Hone
Pete Smith
Hone
Blind Piano Tuner
Bruce Allpress
Blind Piano Tuner
Angel
Rose McIver
Angel
Bluebeard's Wife
Verity George
Bluebeard's Wife
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