The Quiet

High school cheerleader Nina Deer (Elisha Cuthbert) seems like the ultimate bitch in The Quiet, until the plot reveals that her parents are to blame for her disturbing cruelty. When Paul and Olivia Deer (Martin Donovan and Edie Falco) invite their supposedly deaf and mute godchild, Dot (Camilla Belle) to live with the family following the death of Dot's father, Nina plays Dot's evil stepsister. Dot silently persists as household dynamics unfold nightmarishly around her, revealing an unsavory father-daughter affair that leaves the mother reaching for her bottle of painkillers. The more Nina reveals her father-killing fantasy to Dot, however, the more Dot feels compelled to step in. Similarly, as Dot's frustrations grow, she begin...

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