The generic timing; the generic plot twists, don't exist here. It's a movie about violation and expectation. Don't watch the trailer, stop reading the reviews. Put the phone down and be patient. It's a film worth watching.
122 Reviews
Extremely disturbing but a very interesting story
Smells_Like_Cheese23 February 2007
What would you do if you had a friend who supposedly is deaf and cannot speak? Would you confide your darkest secrets? Especially when you have to get it out, but fear being outed? I think in some ways we wish we could all do this since we have so much bottled up inside us, that's why I rented The Quiet, I didn't realize how dark this movie truly was until I saw it with my friend today. This story was so disturbing and horrific in my opinion, even though I'm not sure it's within my tastes, but it actually was a pretty well made movie.
Dot is a deaf teenager who has just been adopted by her godparents, she also cannot speak, she is the outcast at school, and lost her parents at a young age. Nina is the parent's daughter who is very popular and has a very dark secret with her "daddy". When Nina spots Dot playing the piano, Dot has a secret of her own that just might out what is happening in their family.
The Quiet is a very interesting plot that I found to be unique and pretty good. The acting is alright, I was surprised by how well the film worked and how well directed it was. I think the thing is though, it's one of those movies you can only see once, you'll see what I mean, because it touches bases you'd never think where a movie would go, you know? But I think we all need those type of movies every once in a while.
7/10
Dot is a deaf teenager who has just been adopted by her godparents, she also cannot speak, she is the outcast at school, and lost her parents at a young age. Nina is the parent's daughter who is very popular and has a very dark secret with her "daddy". When Nina spots Dot playing the piano, Dot has a secret of her own that just might out what is happening in their family.
The Quiet is a very interesting plot that I found to be unique and pretty good. The acting is alright, I was surprised by how well the film worked and how well directed it was. I think the thing is though, it's one of those movies you can only see once, you'll see what I mean, because it touches bases you'd never think where a movie would go, you know? But I think we all need those type of movies every once in a while.
7/10
Mr. Black's Grade: B.
dvdguy20055 October 2005
The Quiet (Toronto Film Festival Cut) Mr. Black's Grade: B Starring Edie Falco, Elisha Cuthbert, and Shawn Ashmore.
Directed by Jamie Babbit, who is apparently known for lighter TV fare. She has thrown that out the window with The Quiet. Dot (Camilla Belle), a deaf orphan girl, is sent to live with a wholesome foster family, but soon realizes all is not cop-acetic.
Something about this film really hit me. It is a very dark and adult tale set in any town USA. You would find me to be a quiet guy generally, and I like to listen to folks have to say. When you pay attention, people will tell you the most amazing things. 'Dot' certainly goes through that in this film. This is a story about teenagers, and it is appealing that they act that way, saying stupid things and not being 'wise' beyond their years.
The film captured High School for me to a tee, and featured nice pacing and a better than expected performance from the ever-so-lovely Elisha Cuthbert. Some folks may get completely turned off by the subject material, since this is very dark, depressing and very adult material. But for some reason the 'Dot' character really got me...
Directed by Jamie Babbit, who is apparently known for lighter TV fare. She has thrown that out the window with The Quiet. Dot (Camilla Belle), a deaf orphan girl, is sent to live with a wholesome foster family, but soon realizes all is not cop-acetic.
Something about this film really hit me. It is a very dark and adult tale set in any town USA. You would find me to be a quiet guy generally, and I like to listen to folks have to say. When you pay attention, people will tell you the most amazing things. 'Dot' certainly goes through that in this film. This is a story about teenagers, and it is appealing that they act that way, saying stupid things and not being 'wise' beyond their years.
The film captured High School for me to a tee, and featured nice pacing and a better than expected performance from the ever-so-lovely Elisha Cuthbert. Some folks may get completely turned off by the subject material, since this is very dark, depressing and very adult material. But for some reason the 'Dot' character really got me...
Austin Movie Show Review -- disturbing, but well done
leilapostgrad3 September 2006
Warning: Spoilers
When Jailbait opened a few weeks ago, I thought that was the most disturbing thing I'd ever seen on film a young guy in prison getting butt raped by his cellmate every day, for the next 25 years of his life. The Quiet is even more shocking and traumatizing. The first film from U.T.'s Burnt Orange Productions to get national distribution, The Quiet is about a young deaf girl named Dot (Camilla Belle) who moves into a foster home where the father (Martin Donovan) rapes his 16-year-old daughter (Elisha Cuthbert) on a nightly basis, while the mom (Edie Falco) lies in bed, passed out on prescription pain killers. If I were a young film student at U.T. working on this crew, I don't know how I'd tell my parents about the project I was working on for school ("Hey dad, I'm working on this movie about an incestuous father
"). It really is well done. It's so painful to watch precisely because the acting and dialogue are so believable. Cuthbert's character is tortured, but doesn't even realize it. She acts like she enjoys having sex with her father, when clearly it's rape. She flirts with him one minute and talks about killing him the next. The reason though, that this is more disturbing than Jailbait is because we actually see the father and daughter having sex. We see them in bed, kissing, and him mounting her. Now there's something you don't see on screen every day (thank god!). When the daughter announces that she's pregnant, The Quiet quickly rises to a whole new level of shock and disgust. Overall, it's a well-done production, but you can be sure this is a movie I'm not buying on DVD.
Interesting script that sort of falters at the end - DEFINITELY worth a look.
dilbertsuperman28 January 2007
This is a flawed gem of a movie. The ending is a big crack in this diamond. I suggest seeing it, but with the foreknowledge this is a quirky little film that stutters badly on occasion and leaves you wondering in disbelief if that could actually happen-remember- a good script suspends disbelief-- and then realize- it could actually happen.
This is what I call the evil teen genre. Some young flesh in tight clothes with some sociopathic behavior thrown in for good measure. The acting is television quality but the script is intriguing enough that you won't notice until after mulling over how the whole story unfolded and whether it is really plausible or not. I don't find this story plausible and the acting really falters like a broken ankle at the end, but I also know sloppier crimes have gone undiscovered so I guess it could happen.
It's just not really what you would expect though, so be prepared to go.. HUH??? WHAT??
I liked a lot of the dialog in the movie- the bickering was well written.
PLOT: a deaf girl who is the daughter of a recently dead relative shows up on a family's doorstep and they take her in. The family's daughter is NOT amused and the family's father has a rather odd relationship with the rest of the family. Let's just say he's a self-centered asshole with a bad temper that isn't above getting physical over a verbal argument and he has a fetish.
Adding this mysterious deaf girl to their already weird suburban hell mix makes for some interesting fireworks. You will be disappointed with the ending but it's a fantastic story with pretty girls( no skin to speak of, though- BOO!!) up until the last 12 minutes or so where it kind of careens into a ditch and comes to a hasty halt.
This is what I call the evil teen genre. Some young flesh in tight clothes with some sociopathic behavior thrown in for good measure. The acting is television quality but the script is intriguing enough that you won't notice until after mulling over how the whole story unfolded and whether it is really plausible or not. I don't find this story plausible and the acting really falters like a broken ankle at the end, but I also know sloppier crimes have gone undiscovered so I guess it could happen.
It's just not really what you would expect though, so be prepared to go.. HUH??? WHAT??
I liked a lot of the dialog in the movie- the bickering was well written.
PLOT: a deaf girl who is the daughter of a recently dead relative shows up on a family's doorstep and they take her in. The family's daughter is NOT amused and the family's father has a rather odd relationship with the rest of the family. Let's just say he's a self-centered asshole with a bad temper that isn't above getting physical over a verbal argument and he has a fetish.
Adding this mysterious deaf girl to their already weird suburban hell mix makes for some interesting fireworks. You will be disappointed with the ending but it's a fantastic story with pretty girls( no skin to speak of, though- BOO!!) up until the last 12 minutes or so where it kind of careens into a ditch and comes to a hasty halt.
the power of silence
g-8211326 April 2020
The power of silence is so powerful. Because she attracts people to constantly expose the secrets and privacy that cannot be released from the depths of their hearts. As if it were a container that can safely store secrets.
And once the silence is absent, people will be panicked with birds and beasts, as thin as a bowed bird. This is also human nature.
However, when the secret carried exceeds the critical point, peace and calm will be quickly disintegrated
Just NO
takeaknapp-6286519 April 2021
Unexpected
frankfrankfour2 September 2006
I walked into this movie thinking it would suck based on reviews. I was surprised that it actually was interesting and provocative. I think some people might have trouble handling the subject matter and the fact that it's treated with equal parts seriousness and humor. But uncomfortable laughter to me is the sign of a movie that actually pushes some of our buttons and that's a good thing. The cast here is wonderful, in particular Elisha Cuthbert, who proves she can act and Katy Mixon, who nails the bitchy teen banter that can be so typical in other movies. The direction is heavy handed at times but the humor does a good job of undercutting the heavy atmopshere. The ending does have some problems which I won't post here since I don't want to give anything away, but overall I think any movie that manages to be this disturbing is worth a look. I suspect this film will be re-evaluated when its time has come.
Interesting enough
embracing_silence15 July 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Based on the synopsis on Amazon Prime, I chose this movie because it said something about a deaf girl finding out a family's dark secret. It was tagged as a drama/crime/thriller/mystery and I figured it was a murder movie or something like that.
This is a purely drama movie focusing between two girls, one who is deaf & mute, and the other who has an incestuous relationship with her father. The two girls slowly grow a friendship together and both have different ideas of what "growing up" means. One wants passion, the other wants freedom.
The incest scenes are very cringe-worthy, they'll well done, maybe too well done. You can feel how uncomfortable the daughter is at certain moments. This might be enough to turn some people away.
The reason I kept watching, however, was because of the bond between the girls. I liked the character development and wanted to see what would happen with them at the end.
The ending might be a bit confusing at first, but when you sit and put all the pieces together, you can understand why it turned out that way.
It's not an amazing film, but it caught my attention and the plot lines gave me and my boyfriend something to talk about and figure out why certain characters did certain things.
Worst movie ever
Sabrena7 September 2006
This movie made me sick. The plot was horrible, the characters were horrible, and, worst of all, the dialogue was HORRIBLE. Dot's "thoughtful" character is really just a cover for the actresses inability to act. Elisha Cuthbert plays an amazing bitch of a teen but her attitude towards her father's lecherous behavior is sickening. And I can't believe an amazing actress like Edie Falco would lower herself to being seen in this movie. The dialogue between the characters is filled with lewdness and vulgarity and doesn't even register as thoughtful of intuitive. It's predictable and awkward. There's a scene where the cool-guy-who-falls-in-love-with-the-weird-girl (CLICHE!!) describes in full detail an erection he had. The language used is juvenile but the content isn't. I'm not sure who the writers of this awful story were trying to communicate with because the subject matter is too mature for teens and the language is too adolescent for adults. This movie was horrible and not worthy of even a straight-to-DVD label. I wouldn't recommend it to ANYONE.
A distressing but well executed film
kenningtonr12 September 2005
This film receives a 10 for disturbing subject matter. It is at times very difficult to watch. The characters are troubled, each in his/her own way. It feels edgy and often very foreign. With that warning, I must say that on some level I enjoyed the film. Technically it is superb. The character development is wonderful, the story intriguing and the plot is gripping. As the plot unfolds, you are forced to change your opinions about each of the characters. At first I despised the main character but felt much sympathy for her towards the end. Not an uplifting film, but that is certainly not what the screenwriter nor the director intended. I suspect that it will be an award winner.
A nice surprise
jellyneckr15 February 2007
Warning: Spoilers
There's no question that the IMDb page for The Quiet has been clicked on a lot. I'm sure several guys in the 18-29 demographic have clicked on it while viewing Elisha Cuthbert's filmography and thought, "what is this?" A better question would be, why didn't this get a bigger release? After all, Cuthbert has become one of Hollywood's hottest young stars in the past few years, making it easy for a good marketing campaign. Unfortunately, The Quiet is yet another great movie that was virtually dumped by its distributor, given no chance to succeed.
Shot in 2004, The Quiet is director Jamie Babbit's second feature following 1999's well-made satire But I'm a Cheerleader. The main character in Babbit's follow-up is also a cheerleader: 17-year-old Nina Deer (Elisha Cuthbert) is the daughter of an architect father (Martin Donovan) and a pill-addicted mother (Edie Falco). They have recently adopted Dot (Camilla Belle), a deaf 16-year-old who unlike Nina, doesn't fit in at school. While the plot at first sounds like an American Beauty knock-off, without giving away spoilers, it goes in a very different and braver direction than that film did. As with American Beauty, however, the performances are flawless with Cuthbert and Belle giving two of the most real portrayals of high school students I've seen in years.
Even with the excellent cast, The Quiet could have run the risk of being an all-out sleaze-fest thriller like Wild Things, but Jamie Babbit manages to keep everything tonally right, giving just the right balance of drama, mystery, and suspense. Although some have complained that the twist in the end is obvious, I personally never saw it coming and I can normally spot plot twists an hour before they happen. In fact, the only complaint to be had with The Quiet is with the constant use of voice-over. While voice-over was appropriate for the picture, it was used too often and dampened its effect. Even with that fault, The Quiet is still a powerful and unexpected surprise that deserved better. 9/10
Shot in 2004, The Quiet is director Jamie Babbit's second feature following 1999's well-made satire But I'm a Cheerleader. The main character in Babbit's follow-up is also a cheerleader: 17-year-old Nina Deer (Elisha Cuthbert) is the daughter of an architect father (Martin Donovan) and a pill-addicted mother (Edie Falco). They have recently adopted Dot (Camilla Belle), a deaf 16-year-old who unlike Nina, doesn't fit in at school. While the plot at first sounds like an American Beauty knock-off, without giving away spoilers, it goes in a very different and braver direction than that film did. As with American Beauty, however, the performances are flawless with Cuthbert and Belle giving two of the most real portrayals of high school students I've seen in years.
Even with the excellent cast, The Quiet could have run the risk of being an all-out sleaze-fest thriller like Wild Things, but Jamie Babbit manages to keep everything tonally right, giving just the right balance of drama, mystery, and suspense. Although some have complained that the twist in the end is obvious, I personally never saw it coming and I can normally spot plot twists an hour before they happen. In fact, the only complaint to be had with The Quiet is with the constant use of voice-over. While voice-over was appropriate for the picture, it was used too often and dampened its effect. Even with that fault, The Quiet is still a powerful and unexpected surprise that deserved better. 9/10
Wow, what a nice surprise!
buschart21 August 2022
I have a habit of not reading too much about a film before watching, so I had very little idea about this one. Admittedly, it was quite a bit different than I'd anticipated! Not sure about the low ratings - wouldn't be surprised if people were thrown off by the subject matter. I thought it was beautifully shot and unique. American Beauty would be the obvious comparison, but it was less ornate and more raw while still maintaining a distinct mood and delivering top-notch performances.
Something you would see on lifetime
cape_coral_princess5 September 2006
Although this movie was very intense and at times sickening it really wasn't what I was expecting. I won't lie and say it wasn't at all entertaining because it left both me and my boyfriend speechless several times but it lacked that high quality you look for. This movie reminded me too much of something you would see on the lifetime channel. It displayed a dysfunctional family no doubt but it just didn't seem dramatic enough to make it into the theater. You really do get to know the characters in this film and even feel compassion for them but it's just not something you should have to pay money to see. My advice is just wait until it comes out on cable and if it impresses you enough go buy the DVD.
Why?
LizaYummyLiza15 March 2007
A tedious bore! This film doesn't know what it's trying to be. Serious drama or psycho-sexual hokum? Even the poster is confused as it looks like a lesbian vampire flick! So...Mute 'geek' girl moves in with dysfunctional family (God only knows why Edie Falco & Martin Donovan agreed to do this tripe) and uncovers the underbelly of darkness within the household while retaining her own (instantly figured out) secrets. Much like a bad teen-comedy, geek-mute girl becomes popular and even has the most fancied boy at school after her who asks her to 'the dance' (yes he really does!) and secrets are revealed and shared and...who cares! Rubbish. The kind only America loves to make with the premise that if they stick Elisha Cuthbert and Camille Belle as the gals - giving promise to adolescent boys that they may get their kit off (they don't!) the bucks will roll in. They probably have. Don't be one to bankroll this any further. 1 for Edie Falco, 1 for Martin Donovan = 2 out of 10 (very generous at that!)
A rotary pay phone in 2005??
tlharrison-5954620 July 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Opioid addiction. Incest. Fetishizing a deaf girl. What?! The story is interesting but the execution was poor. Some might find the narration necessary so we can know the main character but all of her lines were so hokey, I'd almost bet the movie would have been better without any narration since only one or two lines actually added to the story. The actor who played the dad was horribly cast, his acting was on par with a Lifetime movie but not meant to be played opposite a powerhouse like Edie Falco! Falco is great in this, as she is in most things. Her ability to say so much without speaking is amazing. I think the main girl could have been cast better as well. All in all it wasn't the same-old same-old background movie I was expecting it to be. I actually sat and watched the whole thing. I love that David Gallagher was in it...if only for a few brief appearances! The rotary pay phone still has me laughing though... lol.
There is an undercurrent of suspense, and while the story's trajectory makes sense in hindsight, it is not predictable
fernandoschiavi31 December 2021
The Quiet is director Jamie Babbit's (But I'm a Cheerleader) psychological thriller that takes viewers into darker places than those we are normally transported to in such films. The subject includes four types of abuse: physical, emotional, sexual and substance abuse. All the main characters have secrets and/or manipulation, and there's a lot going on in the unpredictable currents below the surface. The production has its weaknesses - there are times when the process becomes too bleak and the denouement seems unnecessarily long - but overall this is an attractive and, at times, disturbing film.
The film follows the story of Dot (Camila Belle), a deaf girl who is adopted by a family full of problems. Soon, her relationship with her sister Nina (Elisha Cuthbert) becomes unpredictable as she discovers that Dot isn't really deaf. Taking advantage of the situation, and wanting to cause an internal conflict in the other girl, Nina tells Dot that she's going to kill her father (Martin Donovan) for having abused her. Now, the young girl will have to decide to reveal her secret or stay in the shadows and let her sister's threats happen...
Babbit's second feature after the 1999 comedy " But I'm a Cheerleader," "The Quiet" was filmed in Austin, Texas in 2004, the first film by University of Texas production company Burnt Orange. Its soundtrack features songs from Bass, Cat Power, Le Tigre, and numerous Beethoven piano sonatas. Horror in productions like When a Stranger Calls and The House of Wax, respectively. The central idea of the script is very interesting. There is a fine line about right and wrong, which is poorly explored by the plot itself. It could have been an efficient psychological thriller, it turned into a dry, dramatic film, which loses more and more credibility as it develops.
First let's talk about the characters, because it's their instability that makes the movie painfully boring. As much as the plot tries to seek depth around its protagonists, even revealing that the father himself abused his daughter, we were unable to empathize with the character Nina, precisely because she is incapable and makes senseless decisions. There is a different perspective from the way we see it at the beginning and end of the film. And, unfortunately, she doesn't manage to rise in our concept. Aside from the two little girls, we have the parents, who I don't even need to comment on because it's too obvious, and lastly, Dot's friend Connor (played by Shawn Ashmore), who is basically a pervert. Great characters, isn't it? And if they can't win us over, the only salvation would be too much flexibility in the script. Something that is far from happening in this case. In fact, it's the script itself that makes all the characters unbearable.
A strength of The Quiet is that it does not explorative address the issue of incest/sexual abuse in its quest to generate tension. This is an unpleasant subject, and Babbit appreciates it. Nina is obviously confused and damaged. She attacks Dot for no reason, is disdainful of her mother, and has a love/hate relationship with her father. She fantasizes about murdering him but can't summon up the courage. She craves simple affection - after verbally abusing Dot for half the film, she snuggles up next to her one night to comfort herself after rejecting one of her father's advances. Paul suffers from self-loathing. He calls himself "sick" and wants to stop sleeping with his daughter, but he doesn't have the strength to block the compulsion. Olivia protects herself from reality with drugs, but is complicit in what is happening to her husband and daughter. Many nights when he gets out of bed she is not sleeping.
The most interesting character is Dot, and the film is presented from her point of view. His running internal monologue is unnecessary and disturbing, but other than that, the character is presented effectively. Initially, we are not sure whether Dot is deaf or not. There are clues in the way she reacts to comments from others that indicate she is not what she appears to be. After we discover her secret (this comes very early in the movie so it's not really a spoiler), the story takes a while to show how she exploits that advantage. Of course, it's not certain how others will react if they find out she can hear things she shouldn't. It's dishonest and some people, including her possible boyfriend (Shawn Ashmore), may see it as a betrayal. Nina, on the other hand, uses her knowledge of Dot's secret to manipulate the other girl.
The tone emphasizes isolation according to Dot's perspective of her place in the world. For a while, she remains aloof, but circumstances eventually force her to make a choice. Things start to come crashing down like a house of cards when a trigger triggers a series of uncontrollable events. The high school scenes are refreshing and free from the mindless, scripted interaction we usually expect from these situations. The cafeteria and classrooms are not populated by a bunch of bland stereotypes. These are real people, and when they don't like someone, they express it sarcastically and offhandedly, not exaggerating. That's how I remember high school - sometimes weird, sometimes cruel and relentless.
Both links have strong performances. Like Nina, Elisha Cuthbert captures all the emotional changes her character must endure, forcing the viewer to re-evaluate an individual who is initially unpleasant. This is an argument that Cuthbert was underutilized in 24 Hours. Sure, she's attractive, but she also has an ability the TV show never showed. Camilla Bell, who excelled in The Ballad of Jack and Rose and lost in When a Stranger Calls, does most of her work with body language and facial expressions. Edie Falco and Martin Donovan offer balanced supporting performances, lending humanity to roles that could have been one-dimensional.
The Quiet will unsettle some viewers, and this is uncertain territory for any thriller to traverse. Babbit, however, is careful in how she approaches the material, and the film's rhythms are often more than you'd expect from a heterosexual drama. However, there is an undercurrent of suspense, and while the story's trajectory makes sense in hindsight, it is not predictable. 20 minutes before completion, I wasn't sure where things were going. For those who don't mind thrillers with darker and more serious underpinnings, The Quiet is sure to delight.
The film follows the story of Dot (Camila Belle), a deaf girl who is adopted by a family full of problems. Soon, her relationship with her sister Nina (Elisha Cuthbert) becomes unpredictable as she discovers that Dot isn't really deaf. Taking advantage of the situation, and wanting to cause an internal conflict in the other girl, Nina tells Dot that she's going to kill her father (Martin Donovan) for having abused her. Now, the young girl will have to decide to reveal her secret or stay in the shadows and let her sister's threats happen...
Babbit's second feature after the 1999 comedy " But I'm a Cheerleader," "The Quiet" was filmed in Austin, Texas in 2004, the first film by University of Texas production company Burnt Orange. Its soundtrack features songs from Bass, Cat Power, Le Tigre, and numerous Beethoven piano sonatas. Horror in productions like When a Stranger Calls and The House of Wax, respectively. The central idea of the script is very interesting. There is a fine line about right and wrong, which is poorly explored by the plot itself. It could have been an efficient psychological thriller, it turned into a dry, dramatic film, which loses more and more credibility as it develops.
First let's talk about the characters, because it's their instability that makes the movie painfully boring. As much as the plot tries to seek depth around its protagonists, even revealing that the father himself abused his daughter, we were unable to empathize with the character Nina, precisely because she is incapable and makes senseless decisions. There is a different perspective from the way we see it at the beginning and end of the film. And, unfortunately, she doesn't manage to rise in our concept. Aside from the two little girls, we have the parents, who I don't even need to comment on because it's too obvious, and lastly, Dot's friend Connor (played by Shawn Ashmore), who is basically a pervert. Great characters, isn't it? And if they can't win us over, the only salvation would be too much flexibility in the script. Something that is far from happening in this case. In fact, it's the script itself that makes all the characters unbearable.
A strength of The Quiet is that it does not explorative address the issue of incest/sexual abuse in its quest to generate tension. This is an unpleasant subject, and Babbit appreciates it. Nina is obviously confused and damaged. She attacks Dot for no reason, is disdainful of her mother, and has a love/hate relationship with her father. She fantasizes about murdering him but can't summon up the courage. She craves simple affection - after verbally abusing Dot for half the film, she snuggles up next to her one night to comfort herself after rejecting one of her father's advances. Paul suffers from self-loathing. He calls himself "sick" and wants to stop sleeping with his daughter, but he doesn't have the strength to block the compulsion. Olivia protects herself from reality with drugs, but is complicit in what is happening to her husband and daughter. Many nights when he gets out of bed she is not sleeping.
The most interesting character is Dot, and the film is presented from her point of view. His running internal monologue is unnecessary and disturbing, but other than that, the character is presented effectively. Initially, we are not sure whether Dot is deaf or not. There are clues in the way she reacts to comments from others that indicate she is not what she appears to be. After we discover her secret (this comes very early in the movie so it's not really a spoiler), the story takes a while to show how she exploits that advantage. Of course, it's not certain how others will react if they find out she can hear things she shouldn't. It's dishonest and some people, including her possible boyfriend (Shawn Ashmore), may see it as a betrayal. Nina, on the other hand, uses her knowledge of Dot's secret to manipulate the other girl.
The tone emphasizes isolation according to Dot's perspective of her place in the world. For a while, she remains aloof, but circumstances eventually force her to make a choice. Things start to come crashing down like a house of cards when a trigger triggers a series of uncontrollable events. The high school scenes are refreshing and free from the mindless, scripted interaction we usually expect from these situations. The cafeteria and classrooms are not populated by a bunch of bland stereotypes. These are real people, and when they don't like someone, they express it sarcastically and offhandedly, not exaggerating. That's how I remember high school - sometimes weird, sometimes cruel and relentless.
Both links have strong performances. Like Nina, Elisha Cuthbert captures all the emotional changes her character must endure, forcing the viewer to re-evaluate an individual who is initially unpleasant. This is an argument that Cuthbert was underutilized in 24 Hours. Sure, she's attractive, but she also has an ability the TV show never showed. Camilla Bell, who excelled in The Ballad of Jack and Rose and lost in When a Stranger Calls, does most of her work with body language and facial expressions. Edie Falco and Martin Donovan offer balanced supporting performances, lending humanity to roles that could have been one-dimensional.
The Quiet will unsettle some viewers, and this is uncertain territory for any thriller to traverse. Babbit, however, is careful in how she approaches the material, and the film's rhythms are often more than you'd expect from a heterosexual drama. However, there is an undercurrent of suspense, and while the story's trajectory makes sense in hindsight, it is not predictable. 20 minutes before completion, I wasn't sure where things were going. For those who don't mind thrillers with darker and more serious underpinnings, The Quiet is sure to delight.
A would-be "Wild Things" for the Next Generation
george.schmidt28 August 2006
Warning: Spoilers
THE QUIET (2006) ** Elisha Cuthbert, Camilla Belle, Edie Falco, Martin Donovan, Shawn Ashmore, Katy Mixon. (Dir: Jamie Babbit)
A would-be "Wild Things" for the Next Generation
In 1998 a pot boiling neo-noir B -movie trash/guilty pleasure, "Wild Things", came out of left field making some waves at the box office and critics were awakened from their complacent naps thanks to some hanky panky between babes Denise Richards and Neve Campbell and an insidious threesome with Matt Dillon incorporating sordid sex with conspiracy for murder and other heinous acts. Since then there have been a few failed attempts to capitalize on its "eww" factor and raise interest in taboos. This latest offering is a fluke just as well.
Dot (Belle), is a pretty teenager who is deaf and mute and has come recently into the home of family friends the Deers, after her father has been killed in a freak accident (her mother is referred to as having died years previously). The Deers, Olivia and Paul (Falco and Donovan, respectively) are just getting their bearings in their newly refurbished home which is still in the stages of redesign. Their only daughter, Nina (Cuthbert), is a teenager the same age as Dot and despite their history of being childhood friends have fractured their tentative relationship do in no small part to Nina treating Dot with course abruptness whenever she is with her catty cheerleader girlfriend Michelle (Mixon). But Dot can see through her friend and can tell she is putting on a mask about her demeanor even though Dot herself is stand-offish at school and would rather hide behind her long bangs and over-sized, shapeless clothing.
Nina is harboring a horrible secret and when Dot discovers it by chance she is torn about revealing her own secret in lieu of their tenacious friendship: Nina is having an incestuous relationship with her father and Dot can really talk and hear.
What follows is a somewhat sordid metaphorical foray into the darker aspects of human nature but it is handled with ham-fisted dialogue by screenwriters Abdi Nazemian and Micah Schraft with plodding direction by Jamie Babbit that by the third and climactic act is all but underscored with a Sharpie marker and is nothing but a junky resolve to what could've been an interesting character study for either of the young, talented actresses to sink their teeth into. Falco and Donovan seem to be wasted in the process with Falco's character zombie'd on sleeping pills and other pharmaceuticals while Donovan's father figure has shades of sympathy until the second half where he becomes a ridiculous monster. Although busty newcomer Mixon makes for a nice bitch her character too becomes a parody of what a nasty little girl has blossomed into and Ashmore provides a somewhat sympathetic nice guy, again until the clumsy ending.
The sex scenes are somewhat discreet which is probably a good thing considering incest at the forefront and not unlike its seamy predecessor "Wild Things", baring only in resemblance as an overheated pot that needs to be simmered.
A would-be "Wild Things" for the Next Generation
In 1998 a pot boiling neo-noir B -movie trash/guilty pleasure, "Wild Things", came out of left field making some waves at the box office and critics were awakened from their complacent naps thanks to some hanky panky between babes Denise Richards and Neve Campbell and an insidious threesome with Matt Dillon incorporating sordid sex with conspiracy for murder and other heinous acts. Since then there have been a few failed attempts to capitalize on its "eww" factor and raise interest in taboos. This latest offering is a fluke just as well.
Dot (Belle), is a pretty teenager who is deaf and mute and has come recently into the home of family friends the Deers, after her father has been killed in a freak accident (her mother is referred to as having died years previously). The Deers, Olivia and Paul (Falco and Donovan, respectively) are just getting their bearings in their newly refurbished home which is still in the stages of redesign. Their only daughter, Nina (Cuthbert), is a teenager the same age as Dot and despite their history of being childhood friends have fractured their tentative relationship do in no small part to Nina treating Dot with course abruptness whenever she is with her catty cheerleader girlfriend Michelle (Mixon). But Dot can see through her friend and can tell she is putting on a mask about her demeanor even though Dot herself is stand-offish at school and would rather hide behind her long bangs and over-sized, shapeless clothing.
Nina is harboring a horrible secret and when Dot discovers it by chance she is torn about revealing her own secret in lieu of their tenacious friendship: Nina is having an incestuous relationship with her father and Dot can really talk and hear.
What follows is a somewhat sordid metaphorical foray into the darker aspects of human nature but it is handled with ham-fisted dialogue by screenwriters Abdi Nazemian and Micah Schraft with plodding direction by Jamie Babbit that by the third and climactic act is all but underscored with a Sharpie marker and is nothing but a junky resolve to what could've been an interesting character study for either of the young, talented actresses to sink their teeth into. Falco and Donovan seem to be wasted in the process with Falco's character zombie'd on sleeping pills and other pharmaceuticals while Donovan's father figure has shades of sympathy until the second half where he becomes a ridiculous monster. Although busty newcomer Mixon makes for a nice bitch her character too becomes a parody of what a nasty little girl has blossomed into and Ashmore provides a somewhat sympathetic nice guy, again until the clumsy ending.
The sex scenes are somewhat discreet which is probably a good thing considering incest at the forefront and not unlike its seamy predecessor "Wild Things", baring only in resemblance as an overheated pot that needs to be simmered.
An unhappy suburban childhood is not a reason to become a filmmaker
MBunge13 June 2011
Warning: Spoilers
This is another one of those movies that's all about how life in suburban America isn't as perfect as it seems, with cruelty and brutality and degeneracy seething under its placid surface. There must be a lot of filmmakers who had awful suburban childhoods because they keep making this same story over and over again, even though it ceased to original or shocking when Knot's Landing debuted on TV back in the 1980s. They can still occasionally make a good one, like American Beauty. The Quiet, however, is a fairly lifeless entry into the genre.
Dot (Camilla Belle) is a teenage girl whose parents are dead and has ended up in the custody of her godparents. This suburban family has all the requisite pieces. There's Olivia (Edie Falco), the pill-popping mom. Nina (Elisha Cuthbert) is the hot and bitchy cheerleader daughter. Paul (Martin Donovan) is the enabling dad who has to parent both his manipulative daughter and his drugged-out wife. There's also Nina's best friend Michelle (Katy Mixon), who is like a trashier, bitchier version of Nina. Connor (Shawn Ashmore) rounds out the main cast as the standard issue handsome high school athlete.
The Quiet does throw three new wrinkles into this set up. The expected love triangle isn't Nina-Connor-Dot. It's actually Michelle-Connor-Dot. That's because Nina is having an incestuous relationship with her father Paul. Oh, and Dot is pretending to be a deaf-mute to whom everyone spills their secrets because they think she can't hear.
You can probably guess how the script of this film goes, with people discovering secrets about other people and then pretending they don't know them. Dot's supposed deafness is the excuse for character monologues that are supposed to be provocative but are really quite wooden. Nina and Dot are enemies, then they're frenemies and then they're friends. A teddy bear gets his face burned off, Edie Falco walks around topless, somebody dies and the movie peters out after that.
The Quiet isn't a bad movie but it isn't much of a story. It has the setting and the pieces of a story, yet they never come together in any meaningful way. It never gets much into why Dot is faking being deaf and dumb to isolate herself from the world. Sometimes Nina is a bitch because she's compensating for her own anger and self-loathing, sometimes Nina is just a bitch and the film never differentiates between the two. Olivia could just have easily been a cardboard cut-out with the words "absent mom" scribbled on it. Paul swings from someone way too passive and well-adjusted to be having sex with his teenage daughter to a violent brute straight out of a woman-in-peril movie on the Lifetime channel. The only intriguing aspect of this script is the relationship between Nina and Michelle. You can see that Nina connects with Michelle, even though she's a disgusting skank, because Nina feels comfortable being with someone worse than she is.
To sum up, The Quiet is one of those independent movies that's more concerned with being artistic than entertaining. It almost entirely succeeds at not being entertaining. To the same extent, it fails at being artistic. Edie Falco's also the only one who gets naked in this film, so unless you've got a hankering for middle aged boobs, there's little else here.
Dot (Camilla Belle) is a teenage girl whose parents are dead and has ended up in the custody of her godparents. This suburban family has all the requisite pieces. There's Olivia (Edie Falco), the pill-popping mom. Nina (Elisha Cuthbert) is the hot and bitchy cheerleader daughter. Paul (Martin Donovan) is the enabling dad who has to parent both his manipulative daughter and his drugged-out wife. There's also Nina's best friend Michelle (Katy Mixon), who is like a trashier, bitchier version of Nina. Connor (Shawn Ashmore) rounds out the main cast as the standard issue handsome high school athlete.
The Quiet does throw three new wrinkles into this set up. The expected love triangle isn't Nina-Connor-Dot. It's actually Michelle-Connor-Dot. That's because Nina is having an incestuous relationship with her father Paul. Oh, and Dot is pretending to be a deaf-mute to whom everyone spills their secrets because they think she can't hear.
You can probably guess how the script of this film goes, with people discovering secrets about other people and then pretending they don't know them. Dot's supposed deafness is the excuse for character monologues that are supposed to be provocative but are really quite wooden. Nina and Dot are enemies, then they're frenemies and then they're friends. A teddy bear gets his face burned off, Edie Falco walks around topless, somebody dies and the movie peters out after that.
The Quiet isn't a bad movie but it isn't much of a story. It has the setting and the pieces of a story, yet they never come together in any meaningful way. It never gets much into why Dot is faking being deaf and dumb to isolate herself from the world. Sometimes Nina is a bitch because she's compensating for her own anger and self-loathing, sometimes Nina is just a bitch and the film never differentiates between the two. Olivia could just have easily been a cardboard cut-out with the words "absent mom" scribbled on it. Paul swings from someone way too passive and well-adjusted to be having sex with his teenage daughter to a violent brute straight out of a woman-in-peril movie on the Lifetime channel. The only intriguing aspect of this script is the relationship between Nina and Michelle. You can see that Nina connects with Michelle, even though she's a disgusting skank, because Nina feels comfortable being with someone worse than she is.
To sum up, The Quiet is one of those independent movies that's more concerned with being artistic than entertaining. It almost entirely succeeds at not being entertaining. To the same extent, it fails at being artistic. Edie Falco's also the only one who gets naked in this film, so unless you've got a hankering for middle aged boobs, there's little else here.
The Unquiet Quiet
cdelacroix12 September 2006
Warning: Spoilers
I just saw this movie last night. And haven't been able to get it out of my mind. I liked it so much - and at so many levels - I hardly know where to begin.
First, there's the darkness. Quiet, and not-so-quiet, darkness is everywhere in so many ways. This is neo-noir at its best.
Then there's the humor. Frankly, I didn't realize how much humor there was until I had read the other comments on this movie. While watching the movie I kept catching myself letting out a chuckle at the oddest times, or so I thought: but then I realized others around me were laughing at the same times; and, like me, sort of catching ourselves: all the laughter was quick, disturbed laughter. Still, the other commentators are right: humor is definitely an important and surprising feature of this movie. Very dark humor, very quirky and ironic humor, but humor sprinkled (if that's the word) throughout the rough texture of this movie.
The subject matter was handled superbly in my opinion. Sexual abuse is always disturbing matter. I kept thinking of comparisons between this movie and "Hard Candy" and "The Woodsman." regarding how this very challenging material is depicted. In "The Quiet," The attention to the "systems" dynamics of abuse was very disturbing, but very realistic. Nina's ambivalence about her incestuous relationship with her father; her manipulation of him; her dreams of bloody revenge; her myriad ways of "coping" with the ongoing horror that both horrifies her (and us) and is so much a part of her life that it's just 'the way things are" to her in so many ways. Her father's interactions with her are thoroughly realistic. And so is the whole world of Nina's mother. "Hard Candy" and "The Woodsman" in their ways also confront the complex dynamic of sexual abuse. However, for depth and breadth in depicting these dynamics, I really think "The Quiet" comes out clearly superior to the other two movies, as fine as they are.
In addition, "The Quiet" sets side by side two very different - and yet so very alike - forms of young trauma. Nina is traumatized by her father's presence: sexually abusive, emotionally entrapping, overwhelming and enveloping her world so much that she seeks all around her opportunities to break out and escape. Dot, in contrast, is traumatized by her father's absence: dead, stripped from her with a suddenness and finality that leaves her utterly unreconciled to his demise; reduced to ash that she dabs on her tongue but cannot taste. Nina and Dot are both ambivalent in so many ways. Both blame themselves in regard to their fathers; both love their fathers; and miss their fathers; and both share so much more than is at all apparent at the beginning of the movie.
The acting was just wonderful throughout. The lovely Elisha Cuthbert is utterly convincing as Nina. Camilla Belle depicts Dot with a sensitivity and darkness and vivid colorlessness that is both appealing and repelling. Martin Donovan as Nina's father, and Edie Falco as Nina's mother, are frankly to me simply perfect in their roles.
The depiction of high school life has been endorsed for its realism by high schoolers both in the Comments and on the Message Board. Certainly it comes across not only as a realistic teen world, but as a kind of identity-defining context that attracts and repels and amuses, all at once.
All in all, "The Quiet" is to me a superb combination of neo-noir darkness, quirky humor, and deep, disturbing exploration of the dynamics of trauma and sexual abuse. I think I'll try to see it again before it goes out of the theatres.
I feel deeply grateful for this movie, and for all who were involved in making it a reality. It's not often I find myself drawn back to see a movie like this again and again. Thanks, folks!
First, there's the darkness. Quiet, and not-so-quiet, darkness is everywhere in so many ways. This is neo-noir at its best.
Then there's the humor. Frankly, I didn't realize how much humor there was until I had read the other comments on this movie. While watching the movie I kept catching myself letting out a chuckle at the oddest times, or so I thought: but then I realized others around me were laughing at the same times; and, like me, sort of catching ourselves: all the laughter was quick, disturbed laughter. Still, the other commentators are right: humor is definitely an important and surprising feature of this movie. Very dark humor, very quirky and ironic humor, but humor sprinkled (if that's the word) throughout the rough texture of this movie.
The subject matter was handled superbly in my opinion. Sexual abuse is always disturbing matter. I kept thinking of comparisons between this movie and "Hard Candy" and "The Woodsman." regarding how this very challenging material is depicted. In "The Quiet," The attention to the "systems" dynamics of abuse was very disturbing, but very realistic. Nina's ambivalence about her incestuous relationship with her father; her manipulation of him; her dreams of bloody revenge; her myriad ways of "coping" with the ongoing horror that both horrifies her (and us) and is so much a part of her life that it's just 'the way things are" to her in so many ways. Her father's interactions with her are thoroughly realistic. And so is the whole world of Nina's mother. "Hard Candy" and "The Woodsman" in their ways also confront the complex dynamic of sexual abuse. However, for depth and breadth in depicting these dynamics, I really think "The Quiet" comes out clearly superior to the other two movies, as fine as they are.
In addition, "The Quiet" sets side by side two very different - and yet so very alike - forms of young trauma. Nina is traumatized by her father's presence: sexually abusive, emotionally entrapping, overwhelming and enveloping her world so much that she seeks all around her opportunities to break out and escape. Dot, in contrast, is traumatized by her father's absence: dead, stripped from her with a suddenness and finality that leaves her utterly unreconciled to his demise; reduced to ash that she dabs on her tongue but cannot taste. Nina and Dot are both ambivalent in so many ways. Both blame themselves in regard to their fathers; both love their fathers; and miss their fathers; and both share so much more than is at all apparent at the beginning of the movie.
The acting was just wonderful throughout. The lovely Elisha Cuthbert is utterly convincing as Nina. Camilla Belle depicts Dot with a sensitivity and darkness and vivid colorlessness that is both appealing and repelling. Martin Donovan as Nina's father, and Edie Falco as Nina's mother, are frankly to me simply perfect in their roles.
The depiction of high school life has been endorsed for its realism by high schoolers both in the Comments and on the Message Board. Certainly it comes across not only as a realistic teen world, but as a kind of identity-defining context that attracts and repels and amuses, all at once.
All in all, "The Quiet" is to me a superb combination of neo-noir darkness, quirky humor, and deep, disturbing exploration of the dynamics of trauma and sexual abuse. I think I'll try to see it again before it goes out of the theatres.
I feel deeply grateful for this movie, and for all who were involved in making it a reality. It's not often I find myself drawn back to see a movie like this again and again. Thanks, folks!
A Different Kind of Story: Musings After the Fact
gradyharp18 February 2007
THE QUIET comes to the big screen then back to DVD as the product of a group of television writers Abdi Nazemian and Micah Schraft and director (Jamie Babbit) and the film has the feeling that it would have fared better in a made for television format. It is not a film without merit - the cast is good, the atmosphere created is well captured by good camera people, the twist in the story survives - but something is missing that keeps it flat.
The Deers are a family with means whose generosity extends to taking in the victim of another family disaster: the troubles that hide in the Deer family far overpower the problems brought to the unit by the new member. Dot (Camilla Belle of When a Stranger Calls, Chumscrubber, The Ballad of Jack and Rose) is accepted into the Deer household when her deaf father dies in a freak accident: her mother died when Dot was seven and from that time to the present she has been newly deaf and mute. She is a loner, preferring to live in her own apparently silent world, finding solace in playing Beethoven piano works (the actress actually plays the works!). Her 'sister' is high school cheerleader, foul mouthed, crabby Nina (Elisha Cuthbert) who barely tolerates Dot's new role in the house and at school. Olivia Deer (Edi Falco, always excellent) is an interior designer mother who buries her disappointments in pills, being emotionally unavailable most of the time. Paul Deer (Martin Donovan) is a successful architect whose apparent kindness masks a man who is having an incestuous relationship with his daughter Nina. Dot lets the audience know early on that she is indeed not deaf or mute but elects to maintain her silence as she overhears Nina's plan to kill her father. The manner in which these two girls eventually bond and accomplish the dastardly deed and the surprising ending of the family's dissolution make up the basis for the plot development.
Taken on the basis of the story alone the film is fairly predictable, but it is after the movie is over that in retrospect we recognize how cleverly the writers and director and actors have shown us the fragility of each character: each is not black and white/good and evil but in a misty gray zone, a general statement for just about everyone who is in the cast (Connor the walking failure boyfriend - Shawn Ashmore, Michelle the rowdy slutty girlfriend - Katy Mixon). And it is this tendency to encourage the audience to ponder introspection that takes it to a higher level. It is to everyone's credit that they have taken on a tale that is bravely controversial and make it work as well as it does. Grady Harp
The Deers are a family with means whose generosity extends to taking in the victim of another family disaster: the troubles that hide in the Deer family far overpower the problems brought to the unit by the new member. Dot (Camilla Belle of When a Stranger Calls, Chumscrubber, The Ballad of Jack and Rose) is accepted into the Deer household when her deaf father dies in a freak accident: her mother died when Dot was seven and from that time to the present she has been newly deaf and mute. She is a loner, preferring to live in her own apparently silent world, finding solace in playing Beethoven piano works (the actress actually plays the works!). Her 'sister' is high school cheerleader, foul mouthed, crabby Nina (Elisha Cuthbert) who barely tolerates Dot's new role in the house and at school. Olivia Deer (Edi Falco, always excellent) is an interior designer mother who buries her disappointments in pills, being emotionally unavailable most of the time. Paul Deer (Martin Donovan) is a successful architect whose apparent kindness masks a man who is having an incestuous relationship with his daughter Nina. Dot lets the audience know early on that she is indeed not deaf or mute but elects to maintain her silence as she overhears Nina's plan to kill her father. The manner in which these two girls eventually bond and accomplish the dastardly deed and the surprising ending of the family's dissolution make up the basis for the plot development.
Taken on the basis of the story alone the film is fairly predictable, but it is after the movie is over that in retrospect we recognize how cleverly the writers and director and actors have shown us the fragility of each character: each is not black and white/good and evil but in a misty gray zone, a general statement for just about everyone who is in the cast (Connor the walking failure boyfriend - Shawn Ashmore, Michelle the rowdy slutty girlfriend - Katy Mixon). And it is this tendency to encourage the audience to ponder introspection that takes it to a higher level. It is to everyone's credit that they have taken on a tale that is bravely controversial and make it work as well as it does. Grady Harp
Disappointing
xredgarnetx5 April 2008
I was hoping for a Gothic-style horror flick, based on the title, but THE QUIET turned out to be yet another examination of the effects of a father-daughter's sexual relationship in -- where else? --- white-bread Connecticut. Cuthbert gives it her all as the sexually abused minor. The very fetching Camilla Bell plays Cuthbert's cousin, supposedly a deaf-mute, come to live with her. Cuthbert's parents are Edie Falco from THE SOPRANOS, who does a credible job in this one, and Martin Donovan, as Cuthbert's abusive dad. Some effective dream sequences, but the film is a letdown. It goes nowhere, and the ending is all too predictable.
Surprisingly Compelling Viewing
lizbrush2 May 2007
Go watch "The Quiet"! Quickly! I can't get over what a good film it is what a surprise! After watching The Quiet, I checked out its many awful critic reviews, then looked at it on the good old IMDb. Another surprise - it pretty much has nothing but raving user reviews the People have spoken. I'm inclined to agree, as I picked the film up because I heard it was a thriller about normal people's dark, guilty secrets, which is always fun! I didn't really know much about the actual plot, and so, late last night, when I bunged it on the DVD with the idea of watching ten or so minutes before bed, I found that I couldn't stop watching it. I felt *compelled* to watch, even when the film was plumbing it's darkest depths and I was hanging over the edge of my seat feeling at my most unsettled and muttering to myself things like "mad" and "off key". If you don't already know what happens, I assure you, you will be completely surprised. The subject matter is one of those ones that some people think should never be dramatised, and it definitely *does* leave you unsettled (catch the scene where Nina confides her plan to Dot in the cafeteria disturbing!), but I would say it will stick in my head, as apart from the twists, and the intense construction of suspense, the characters, who all start out as unsympathetic, go through such brilliantly contrived arcs, that you find yourself empathising with even the most evil. The two main characters are wicked Elisha Cuthbert from 24 packs a stirring punch as the popular cheerleader from Hell with an unbelievable dark side and a complex set of issues, while Camille Bell puts in a career topping turn as not-so-deaf Dot, keeper of everyone's secrets and work really well together. You also may find yourself laughing nervously a certain points and feeling bad for doing so, but that just means that the makers have provoked a reaction
Basically, I totally got more than I expected and I would recommend The Quiet to most people as shocking but compelling viewing! But, *don't* watch if you can't stand a film that makes you a bit uncomfortable, or one that makes you feel kinda guilty for liking it!
weird story but interesting
MLDinTN5 December 2007
This story is about a very dysfunctional family whom has a deaf mute come live with them after her father dies. Nina the couples popular daughter is always picking on Dot but soon learns Dot may be keeping a secret. She tells Dot her secret because she really believes Dot can hear and will some how help her out. Her mom is a prescription drug addict and is living in a fog and pretends she doesn't know what is going on between her husband and daughter. Dot does something drastic, but Nina's mom ends up taking the blame.
FINAL VERDICT: At least the plot is a little something different. It's dark but entertaining enough. Those who like non conventional films may like this.
FINAL VERDICT: At least the plot is a little something different. It's dark but entertaining enough. Those who like non conventional films may like this.
Misanthropic mess
trans_mauro11 March 2012
The director of this pile of garbage must a be man-hating lesbian...
There is no other explanation for how someone could be that sick and full of spite towards men.
The film can be summarized as a long two-hour rape of our senses, feelings and emotions.
Curiously, at the same time as the director demonizes men, she uses the body figure and the nymph-like presence of the Elisha Cuthbert as a way to titillate the lesbians in the audience... go figure!
Stay away from this piece of garbage. It will kill a lot of your brain cells.
This is a movie for man-hating pseudo-intellectual psychotic lesbians..
There is no other explanation for how someone could be that sick and full of spite towards men.
The film can be summarized as a long two-hour rape of our senses, feelings and emotions.
Curiously, at the same time as the director demonizes men, she uses the body figure and the nymph-like presence of the Elisha Cuthbert as a way to titillate the lesbians in the audience... go figure!
Stay away from this piece of garbage. It will kill a lot of your brain cells.
This is a movie for man-hating pseudo-intellectual psychotic lesbians..
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