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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.
Theatrical
Nov 12, 1993
Box Office
$40.2M
Budget
$7.0M
Return
5.7x
DVD / Blu-ray
Jan 20, 1998
Theaters
13
Director
Producers
Music
Studio
CiBy 2000, Jan Chapman Productions
Keywords
love triangle
adultery
sexuality
jealousy
beach
culture clash
isolation
strangeness
violent husband
new zealand
maori
arranged marriage
settler
wilderness
forbidden love
secret love
mute
domestic violence
pianist
playing piano
woman director
sign languages
piano
19th century
severed finger
mother daughter relationship
intimate
dramatic
intense
Quotes
See all →A Dark Response to a Simple Question
Stewart
Where's your mother? Where's she off to?
Flora
To Hell!
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Frustration with Piano Lessons Revealed
Flora
I know why Mr. Baines can't play the piano. She never gives him a turn. She just plays whatever she pleases and sometimes she doesn't play at all.
Stewart
And when is the next lesson?
Flora
Tomorrow.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Cast
Full credits →H
Holly Hunter
Ada McGrath
H
Harvey Keitel
George Baines
S
Sam Neill
Alisdair Stewart
A
Anna Paquin
Flora McGrath
C
Cliff Curtis
Mana
K
Kerry Walker
Aunt Morag
I
Ian Mune
Reverend
G
Geneviève Lemon
Nessie
P
Pete Smith
Hone
B
Bruce Allpress
Blind Piano Tuner
R
Rose McIver
Angel
S
Stephen Papps
Bluebeard
K
Karen Colston
Bluebeard's Wife (Miss Palmer)
E
Eddie Campbell
Seaman
N
Neil Gudsell
Tahu
J
Jon Sperry
Taunting Man
