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.
Holly Hunter
as Ada McGrath
Harvey Keitel
as George Baines
Sam Neill
as Alisdair Stewart
Anna Paquin
as Flora McGrath
Cliff Curtis
as Mana
Kerry Walker
as Aunt Morag
Ian Mune
as Reverend
Geneviève Lemon
as Nessie
Pete Smith
as Hone
Bruce Allpress
as Blind Piano Tuner
Rose McIver
as Angel
Verity George
as Bluebeard's Wife