Released 1993
Stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin
Directed by Jane Campion

"The Piano" tells a story of love and fierce pride, and places it on a bleak New Zealand coast where people live rudely in the rain and mud, struggling to maintain the appearance of the European society they've left behind. It is a story of shyness, repression and loneliness; of a woman who will not speak and a man who cannot listen, and of a willful little girl who causes mischief and pretends she didn't mean to.

Summary by Roger Ebert