
Holly Hunter
Ada McGrath

Silence affects everyone in the end.
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.
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.
Released May 18, 1993
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Holly Hunter
Ada McGrath

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Sam Neill
Alisdair Stewart

Anna Paquin
Flora McGrath

Cliff Curtis
Mana

Kerry Walker
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Ian Mune
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Geneviève Lemon
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