The Piano(1993)
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.
Movie: The Piano
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Ada McGrath
George Baines
Alisdair Stewart
Flora McGrath
Mana
Aunt Morag
Reverend
Nessie
Hone
Blind Piano Tuner
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