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The Piano

The Piano

Release Date:Rating:

May 19th, 1993
R

Genres:

Drama

Subgenres:

Historical, Romance, Sexual/Erotic

Plot Synopsis:

Set in 1851, a mute Scottish woman arrives in colonial New Zealand for an arranged marriage, with her precocious young daughter and beloved piano in tow. When her practical new husband refuses to...

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The shots and sounds are beautiful and raw. The color of the film relates to the physical place and emotional place of the characters. It connects with the music that follows the same course. The acting is heartfelt as well, really emotional,...
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Posted feb 8, 2008 9:43 am pt

Holly Hunter is wonderful as the mute (but not deaf) girl, whose piano means everything to her (Hunter did all her own playing for the film!), as was Harvey Keitel her would-be and eventually lover who has her piano brought up from the beach,...
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Posted may 16, 2007 3:17 pm pt

I thought that the "Piano" was a decent movie, but I found the story to be a little bit sick--a man who will transport a piano for a mute woman in return for favors in bed? In any event, the settings were beautiful and the film was well...
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Posted mar 5, 2007 6:23 am pt

I think that this film was very well done, and though it is sort of like a drama and romance, it was nothing boring and nothing predictable, it had a lot of good moments around it. Some very good, some very bad, though I don't think that it was...
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Posted mar 3, 2007 8:41 am pt


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