Babbit starts with loud caricature and lathers on a lecherous tone with a lesbian subtext.
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09/13/06
The Quiet (2006)
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Reviews Counted:92
Fresh:20
Rotten:72
Average Rating:4/10
Consensus: This psychological thriller's talented cast is undercut by leaden pacing and a problematic plot.
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Jamie Babbitt (GILMORE GIRLS) makes his feature debut with this suburban melodrama tinged with the trappings of exploitation films and Gothic horror. Dot (Camilla Belle, THE CHUMSCRUBBER) is a deaf... [More]
Starring: Elisha Cuthbert, Camilla Belle, Edie Falco, Martin Donovan
Director: Jamie Babbitt
Reviews for The Quiet
Intentionally slow-paced, Babbit’s taut direction gives Cuthbert a mean-spirited thriller as an acting showcase. And, Falco does an impressive nude scene!
08/28/06
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08/26/06
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09/02/06
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09/23/06
Murky, confounding but engrossing thriller.
09/01/06
a disturbing drama that is as riveting to watch as it is challenging to contemplate
08/30/06
It's hard to regard the result as a success.
08/24/06
Rather than an indictment of depravity, the movie quickly becomes a particularly cynical example of it.
09/01/06
The director combines an angst-ridden look at suburban perversions with a teen titillation comedy, and the final product often comes off as pretentious, crass and overwrought.
08/31/06
Speaks queasy volumes about the refracted manner in which the sexualization of female adolescents is viewed as a form of perverse entertainment.
08/31/06
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11/20/08
As the picture gets wilder and the performances achieve a Telemundo-broad pitch, Babbit keeps this trainwreck engrossing
09/01/06
It is an absolute dramatic disaster.
09/01/06
The film's focus shouldn't be Dot (Camilla Belle), a deaf, mute and orphaned teen. It should be her new family of suburbanites sliding into hell.
09/01/06
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.
12/02/06
what should have been heavily emotional material careens instead quite quickly into high camp
08/24/06
The Quiet doesn't have the wit of American Beauty, and, in fact, what's most interesting about it is its weirdly blank haziness.
08/31/06
An unnerving little psychological study that makes the most of the high-def aesthetic.
08/31/06
The next "American Beauty". The film expunges every inch of emotion from its actors shells - particularly marvellous newcomer Camilla Belle, last seen in the "When A Stranger Calls" remake, and former "24" cutie Elisha Cuthbert, whose never been better"
09/27/06
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