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.
The Piano has generally received very positive reviews.
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The Piano was released in 1993 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 619 reviews, giving The Piano (1993) an average rating of 80%.
Overall, film critics marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 90%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 82%.
With a score of 80%, The Piano is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1993, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 1993 with similar scores include films like Groundhog Day, Menace II Society and The Joy Luck Club.
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