That piece of junk caused all this misfortune!

Rating: 7/10 (19 February 2014)

***SPOILERS*** "The Piano" is the story about a piano and all the trouble it caused for everyone in the cast in how crazy they went overboard over it. It all started with the mute but beautiful Ada McGrath, Holly Hunter, who lost both her voice and husband in a thunderstorm back in England when her husband was struck by a lighting bolt out of the blue. Now on her way to the wilds of New Zealand with her 10 year old daughter Flora, Ann Paquin,to get hooked up with a husband , that she never met, Englishman and land surveyor Alisdair Stewart, Sam Neil, Ada insists in sign languages to take her piece of junk piano along with her on the trip.
It's in the wilds of New Zealand that Ada settles that are occupied by the uncivilized from western and British culture "Mud People" better known as the Maori's. It in that forbidden jungle and mud infested hell hole that the sweet and proper Ada meets and falls in love with former English whaler and now full fledged Maori warrior George Baines, Harvey Keitel. At first not at all interested in the slobbery and tattooed Baines who has a habit of walking around butt naked in her presences Ada soon falls head over heels for him in the animal magnetism that he displays towards her. Something that the educated and highly civilized Alisdaie Stewart, her chosen husband, seems to lack. Trying to bed down his new wife and be a husband to her makes Stewart even more mad in that she just can't get the animal like Baines, who by now has cleaned up his act, out of her mind as well as bed! Baines even goes so far as to ask Ada to give him piano lessons which the only thing he plans to play with is Ada not her piano. He just lays under the piano as Ada is playing it and tries to look up her dress which, in what he sees, he finds far more interesting then her piano or piano playing! It's by then that Stweart finally realized what was going on and went completely berserk that lead to the tragedy at the end of the movie. Not only to Ada but to himself as well in losing it and becoming even far more uncivilized then Baines who by then wanted nothing at all to do with Ada.
***SPOILERS*** Acrtress Holly Hunter playing the mute Ada McGrath also played the piano by herself without a double in the movie. As for her nude scenes, with a body that most men would gladly die for, with both Kitle & Neil she seemed to , I'm not quite sure, have done them by herself as well. The tragic ending had Ada on her way home to England have the piano thrown overboard into the Pacific Ocean with Ada, with her foot caught in the netting, hanging on to it for dear life. It was all for the best in that by a miracle she was able to untangle her foot and swim up to the surface and be rescued and go back, without Stewart, to England. Later as the movie was about to end Ada was also able to regain her voice that she lost there due to a thunder storm so many years ago that took her first husbands life.