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.
Ada McGrath
Holly Hunter
George Baines
Harvey Keitel
Alisdair Stewart
Sam Neill
Flora McGrath
Anna Paquin
Mana
Cliff Curtis
Aunt Morag
Kerry Walker
Reverend
Ian Mune
Nessie
Geneviève Lemon
Hone
Pete Smith
Blind Piano Tuner
Bruce Allpress
Angel
Rose McIver
Bluebeard's Wife
Verity George
Bluebeard
Stephen Papps
Bluebeard's Wife (Miss Palmer)
Karen Colston
Seaman
Eddie Campbell
Chief Nihe
Te Whatanui Skipwith
Hira
Tungia Baker
Tahu
Neil Gudsell
Taunting Man
Jon Sperry
Tipi
Greg Mayor