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  • 2006
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2006
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 36 m

Summary Popular cheerleader Nina Deer's (Cuthbert) world is turned upside down when her parents (Falco and Donovan) adopt a recently orphaned deaf girl, Dot (Belle). But in this suburban home, things are not what they seem. Dot's arrival puts a crack in Nina's idyllic social life and the dark secrets her family harbors soon become exposed. (Son...

Directed By: Jamie Babbit

Written By: Abdi Nazemian, Micah Schraft

  • 2006
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2006
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 36 m

The Quiet

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 24 Critic Reviews
29
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 69 User Ratings
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Summary Popular cheerleader Nina Deer's (Cuthbert) world is turned upside down when her parents (Falco and Donovan) adopt a recently orphaned deaf girl, Dot (Belle). But in this suburban home, things are not what they seem. Dot's arrival puts a crack in Nina's idyllic social life and the dark secrets her family harbors soon become exposed. (Son...

Directed By: Jamie Babbit

Written By: Abdi Nazemian, Micah Schraft

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 24 Critic Reviews
29
8% Positive
2 Reviews
25% Mixed
6 Reviews
67% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 24 Critic Reviews
29
8% Positive
2 Reviews
25% Mixed
6 Reviews
67% Negative
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75
You still marvel at the visuals -- cinematographer M. David Mullen has done miracles with what must have been a microscopic budget -- but you're less invested in the tale. Which is a pity, because it might have been a perfect little potboiler. As it stands, it's merely pretty darned good of its type.
By Shawn Levy FULL REVIEW
40
Perhaps future generations of film scholars will embrace The Quiet as a B-movie that problematizes the oppressive gaze, but for now, it's a misfire.
By Marrit Ingman FULL REVIEW

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Universal Acclaim Based on 69 User Ratings
8.4
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57 Ratings
4% Mixed
3 Ratings
13% Negative
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Universal Acclaim Based on 69 User Ratings
8.4
83% Positive
57 Ratings
4% Mixed
3 Ratings
13% Negative
9 Ratings

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38
Trapped between edgy art flick and exploitation psychothriller, The Quiet manages to be neither, and manages to be pretty awful in the bargain.
By Steven Rea FULL REVIEW
30
The Quiet is best for cheap laughs by jaded moviegoers with absolutely nothing better to do with their time.
By Phil Hall FULL REVIEW
30
A Lifetime movie on crack, The Quiet dredges up every lurid cliche from the well of teen hormonal havoc in a tale of dysfunctional family meltdown that seems unsure whether to push for suburban-Gothic psychosexual excess or tongue-in-cheek malevolence.
By David Rooney FULL REVIEW
25
The script drowns out its ideas with arch melodramatic devices and ridiculous twists while Babbitt smothers even the daylight scenes in an oppressive gloom.
By Sean Axmaker FULL REVIEW
0
With its pathetic characters, questionable logic, and wall-to-wall Beethoven, the movie is a serious contender for this year's Golden Turkey award.
By J.R. Jones FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Andrea Sperling Productions, Burnt Orange Productions, Holly Wiersma Productions, Joel Michaely Productions, Town Lake Films, University of Texas, Austin
Release Date Aug 25, 2006
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Isn't it time everyone hears your secrets?
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Awards

Women Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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