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The Quiet
2005
· Movie
· 96 min
F
MEANRANK
49/100
Every rating
22–67
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 22, highest is Kinopoisk on 67. Critics average 26, everyone else 59.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →After her widowed father dies, deaf teenager Dot moves in with her godparents, Olivia and Paul Deer. The Deers' daughter, Nina, is openly hostile to Dot, but that does not prevent her from telling her secrets to her silent stepsister, including the fact that she wants to kill her lecherous father.
Details
- Director
- Jamie Babbit
- Writers
- Abdi Nazemian, Micah Schraft
- Studio
- Burnt Orange Productions, Andrea Sperling Productions, Holly Wiersma Productions, Joel Michaely Productions
- Released
- 25 August 2006
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $900.0K
- Box office
- $381.4K
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