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Several decades ago, speaking about the vice-presidency of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson summed up his view of the job with a few, choice words: "The vice-presidency is not worth a pitcher of warm spit."
Ada, who has been mute since the age of six and for whom the piano is her only voice, is devastated by its loss. She turns to George Baines (Harvey Keitel), an illiterate neighbor of theirs who has "gone native." Baines eventually makes a deal with Stewart, trading the piano...
To reveal what happens would be unthinkable, for the surprises in the plot are one of he films manifold pleasures. Campion has said that in writing the screenplay she drew on the Bronte sisters. She is faithful to her inspiration, and the violent unleashing of passions and the consequences that...
Though his New Zealand accent wobbles a bit at times, Harvey Keitel is, as usual, excellent. He makes a potentially unlikable and thorny man human and sympathetic. Sam Neill, who originally wanted to play the part of Baines, is particularly fine in the role of Stewart, a good man who...
Lyndon Baines Johnson once said that he would never get credit for anything he did in foreign policy because he didn't go to Harvard.