Top billed cast

1. 

   Maggie Smith

   Judith Hearne

2. 

   Bob Hoskins

   James Madden

3. 

   Wendy Hiller

   Aunt D'Arcy

4. 

   Marie Kean

   Mrs. Rice

5. 

   Ian McNeice

   Bernard Rice

6. 

   Rudi Davies

   Mary

7. 

   Prunella Scales

   Moira O'Neill

8. 

   Áine Ní Mhuirí

   Edie Marinan

9. 

   Sheila Reid

   Mrs Friel

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-11-14

Maggie Smith offers quite a compelling performance in this adaptation of Brian Moore's novel. She is the eponymous piano teacher, having fallen on hard times since the death of her aunt (Dame Wendy Hiller). She comes to live in a boarding house in Dublin where she encounters a rather curious dynamic amongst the guests: the proprietress, her son, and her brother "Madden" (Bob Hoskins). She takes rather a shine to him, and the beautiful jewellery on her fingers leads him to believe that she might be useful backing his proposed hamburger business venture. Wires get crossed, and we discover that t...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• hotel
• based on novel or book
• despair
• dublin, ireland
• loneliness
• boarding house
• spinster
• piano
• 1950s