The purloined piano?

The Piano secured Jane Campion as a major director and catapulted her from the art-house to the multiplex, but the Oxford Companion to Australian Film recently cast doubt over the originality of the screenplay for which she received an Oscar. The resulting investigation into the links between the “strange and mesmerising film” and the novel The Story of a New Zealand River, by Jane Mander, resulted in Oxford University Press Australia issuing a full apology to Campion over the claims.