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The Quiet
The movie focuses on a deaf-mute teenage girl, Dot who goes to live with her godparents and their daughter, where she slowly learns the disturbing secrets of the family, primarily concerning their teenage daughter, Nina.
18 September 1961, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
30 March 1981, Pensacola, Florida, USA
19 August 1957, Reseda, California, USA
26 November 1980, Houston, Texas, USA
October 09, 2006
Starts with an overwritten voice-over and ends with events so baffling as to seem satirical.
September 01, 2006
A creepy family drama that reeks of pretentiousness.
September 01, 2006
The exposition is so heavy-handed, the producers might just as well distribute a printed handout to hapless ticket buyers.
December 02, 2006
The film's producers would like us to keep this quiet... this is supposed to be a thriller, but the only time we were thrilled was when it was over.
March 01, 2007
Illustrate[s], once and for all, that it's possible for a film to be soooo slow and ponderous it can appear, at times, to come to a dead stop.
March 15, 2007
The fatalistic woe becomes an indie film mockery. It's truly adolescent.
September 16, 2006
One strength of The Quiet is that it does not deal exploitatively with the incest/sexual abuse issue in its quest to generate tension.
February 10, 2007
What on the surface initially seems like your typical bitchy blonde-versus-ostracized newcomer teensploit is merely this taut psychological thriller's point of departure for the exploration of a more sobering set of circumstances.
September 01, 2006
Rather than an indictment of depravity, the movie quickly becomes a particularly cynical example of it.
September 01, 2006
Bordering on camp and loaded with lesbian undertones, this wretched drama plays like a high-school horror flick that trades monsters and mayhem for an overdose of force-fed cruelty.
September 23, 2006
In retrospect, it is Belle who manages to acquit herself best with a role that never quite makes sense, but affords her some expressive, silent sequences. Surely she will find other film work and then quietly drop The Quiet from her biography.
April 29, 2009
A hilariously bad and utterly ridiculous piece of melodrama touted as a thriller.