Perversely sordid, some of the creepy soft-core scenes cross the lurid line of bad taste.
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09/04/06
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
[Cuthbert] picked a poor film to get behind as star and producer: it mistakes luridness for tragedy and monotony for sophistication.
09/03/06
Good grief.
09/03/06
An uncomfortable and disturbing portrait of lives in disarray, each one being hidden by a veneer of faux-normalcy within the external world.
09/02/06
How can a movie structured around incest, murder, parental alcoholism, underage fornication, and overt flirting between same-sex cheerleaders be so bland, frigid and hopelessly lifeless?
09/02/06
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09/02/06
The Quiet, however much it may hold you through most of the story, will leave you at the end stunned by the realization: you have just wasted 96 precious minutes of your presumably not unlimited lifespan.
09/02/06
The Quiet fails to realize its ambition of melding the satirical levity of a teen high-school comedy with serious, issue-oriented drama.
09/02/06
Rather than an indictment of depravity, the movie quickly becomes a particularly cynical example of it.
09/01/06
The exposition is so heavy-handed, the producers might just as well distribute a printed handout to hapless ticket buyers.
09/01/06
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.
09/01/06
A creepy family drama that reeks of pretentiousness.
09/01/06
A sauced teaser that skims Freudian depths it doesn't begin to fathom.
09/01/06
Since it's too bad to be good, but not bad enough to be campy, you'll wish they would have just kept quiet.
09/01/06
An occasionally compelling, dark and sometimes darkly funny movie draws us in but doesn't really pay off. And any teenager knows what that describes -- a tease.
09/01/06
Director Jamie Babbit, with unnervingly beautiful compositions and sharp editing, lures you so skillfully into the film's awful revelations and sickening atmosphere, you feel rather like Dot: defenseless, alone, vulnerable.
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
Characters already too wicked to be credible start doing stuff simply too stupid to be believed, with no help from a cast way too overmatched to be useful.
09/01/06
A drama that all but begs to have its earnestness called into question.
09/01/06
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