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The Quiet (2006) DVD Review
The Quiet (2006) DVD Credits:
The Quiet (2006) Directed by:
Jamie Babbit
The Quiet (2006) Written by:
Abdi Nazemian, Micah Schraft
The Quiet (2006) Cast:
Elisha Cuthbert, Edie Falco, Camilla Belle, Shawn Ashmore, Martin Donovan
The Quiet (2006) Released by:
Not available at this time
Region:
1
The Quiet (2006) DVD Release Date:
13th February 2007
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The Quiet (2006) Synopsis:

Cuthbert stars in the project as a popular and beautiful girl in a typical middle-class family. She seems to have it all until a supposedly deaf orphan teenager comes to live with her family, sparking events that reveal her family is not at all what it seems to be.

The Quiet (2006) DVD Review:

An interesting concept doesn’t always make a good movie. The Quiet seems based on an interesting concept, but it never really develops into anything interesting. Instead there are too many flaws bogging down the interesting concept until it is nearly invisible amongst the mess of melodrama and unbelievably cliché characters. Slow moving isn’t an accurate description, because it moves along fine, only there is no real suspense in what will happen. Regardless of the ending it will bear little consequence the way the characters seem to repel the audience’s attention. Each character is somewhat unlikable, and although the easiest to like is the narrator Dot, this may be because of how little she speaks dialogue in the film.

Camilla Belle (When a Stranger Calls, The Chumscrubber) is Dot, a recently orphaned deaf girl who joins her godparents to live. Her godparents (played by Martin Donovan and Edie Falco) seem normal enough on the serfice, but there are strange sexual disfunctions in the family as well as heavy drug abuse. Their real daughter Nina (Elisha Cuthbert) is one of the most popular girls at school and a cheerleader, but she has her own secrets about her family as well, so she doesn’t like having the inconvenient Dot around. Since nobody can talk to Dot they just ignore her at first, but then they begin telling her secrets thinking that there is no way she could understand what she is being told. Suspense builds as we are teased with possibilities that Dot can hear what is being said to her, in which case she knows far more than anyone thinks she does, and this frightens Nina.

The DVD has a number of quick little featurettes in the special features, but they are predominately filled with the younger supporting actors in the cast who are far to excited about whatever minor aspect the featurette is about, merely for the chance at more camera time. There is a behind-the-scenes look at the dissection scene, which didn’t seem remarkable enough to merit a featurette. There is also a featurette on the location shooting in Austin, Texas and a featurette about the digital photography used. The last two featurettes are about the cast and the script development.

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The Quiet (2006) DVD review written by: Ryan Izay

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