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.
Director · Jane CampionStatus · ReleasedBudget · 7.0MRevenue · 40.2MProduction · CiBy 2000, Jan Chapman Productions
Media
Trailer
Official 25th Anniversary Trailer
May 21, 2018
Featurette
Video Essay by the Cinema Cartography
March 25, 2022
Trailer
4K Remastered | Official Trailer
June 4, 2026
Cast
Holly Hunter
Ada McGrath
Harvey Keitel
George Baines
Sam Neill
Alisdair Stewart
Anna Paquin
Flora McGrath
Cliff Curtis
Mana
Kerry Walker
Aunt Morag
Ian Mune
Reverend
Geneviève Lemon
Nessie
Pete Smith
Hone
Bruce Allpress
Blind Piano Tuner
Rose McIver
Angel
Verity George
Bluebeard's Wife
Stephen Papps
Bluebeard
Karen Colston
Bluebeard's Wife (Miss Palmer)
Eddie Campbell
Seaman
Te Whatanui Skipwith
Chief Nihe
Tungia Baker
Hira
Neil Gudsell
Tahu
Jon Sperry
Taunting Man
Greg Mayor
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