Too Quiet
- Title: The Quiet
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Thrillers work on keeping the audience on the edge of your seat. This film isn’t a thriller. Character studies work by examining individuals and relationships, bringing truths and secrets out, and making resolutions. This isn’t a character study. In fact, I’m not sure what it is. I know what it wants to be, but it just doesn’t know how to get there.
Dot (Camilla Belle) is a miserable and lonely young deaf high school student. After the death of her father she moves in with a family whose own troubles make hers seem bearable. Nina (Elisha Cuthbert) is the spoiled cheerleader who doesn’t appreciate being associated with a school outcast. Paul Deer (Martin Donovan) is a successful father who loves his daughter a little too much, and his wife Olivia (Edie Falco) is a pill-popping addict that was last sober sometime in the 90’s.
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