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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.
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... [More]
Starring: Elisha Cuthbert, Camilla Belle, Edie Falco, Martin Donovan
Director: Jamie Babbitt
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Reviews for The Quiet
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The fatalistic woe becomes an indie film mockery. It's truly adolescent. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Starts with an overwritten voice-over and ends with events so baffling as to seem satirical. Full Review |
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The Quiet is the kind of bad filmmaking that makes me lament that I blew a couple of hours of my life seeing it. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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" Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Pretentious and pointless -- take a pass. Full Review |
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2/5 |
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. Full Review |
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3/5 |
An uneven satire/black comedy that lurches from serious drama to black comedy and back again. Full Review |
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One strength of The Quiet is that it does not deal exploitatively with the incest/sexual abuse issue in its quest to generate tension. Full Review |
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Babbit starts with loud caricature and lathers on a lecherous tone with a lesbian subtext. Full Review |
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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? Full Review |
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The latest example of a creepy new subgenre, the Sundance exploitation film. Full Review |
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