The Quiet (2006)
22 %
Reviews Counted: 90 Fresh: 20 Rotten:70 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
Theatrical Release: Aug 25, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $289,969
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 and mute girl with a troubled past: her mother died when she was seven, and now her deaf father... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Elisha Cuthbert, Camilla Belle, Edie Falco, Martin Donovan, Shawn Ashmore
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The fatalistic woe becomes an indie film mockery. It's truly adolescent.
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03/15/07
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.
03/01/07
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.
02/10/07
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
Starts with an overwritten voice-over and ends with events so baffling as to seem satirical.
10/09/06
The Quiet is the kind of bad filmmaking that makes me lament that I blew a couple of hours of my life seeing it.
10/01/06
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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09/23/06
Top Critic
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.
09/23/06
Top Critic
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.
09/16/06
An uneven satire/black comedy that lurches from serious drama to black comedy and back again.
09/16/06
One strength of The Quiet is that it does not deal exploitatively with the incest/sexual abuse issue in its quest to generate tension.
09/16/06
Top Critic
Babbit starts with loud caricature and lathers on a lecherous tone with a lesbian subtext.
09/13/06
At this advanced level of sophistication, one starts to wonder if Abdi Nazemian and Micah Schraft's screenplay was written entirely in capital letters. Or perhaps crayon?
09/10/06
The latest example of a creepy new subgenre, the Sundance exploitation film.
09/05/06
Perversely sordid, some of the creepy soft-core scenes cross the lurid line of bad taste.
09/04/06
[Cuthbert] picked a poor film to get behind as star and producer: it mistakes luridness for tragedy and monotony for sophistication.
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
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