The Quiet
Very strange film. One of those things where you're stuck in a hotel room, the middle of the night, can't sleep and you come across this so you watch it.
Really good cast overall. Elisha Cuthbert. Camilla Belle. Edie Falco (tremendous in the Sopranos). Martin Donovan (who was outstanding in Boss).
The premise wasn't bad either. Family (Donovan, Falco and Cuthbert) take in the daughter of a close friend (Belle) after the friend is killed.
The girl they take in appears to be a deaf mute. She "dresses like a janitor (Cuthbert's words)" and does nothing to improve her appearance. Funny thing is that even though she slumps around with stringy hair and a sullen look you can tell she's hot underneath.
Of course she's ostracized at school. All high school girls are superficial mean bitches. And all high school boys are superficial engorged penises who engage in regular self-loathing and take it out on anyone who is different.
Turns out the new girl isn't exactly as she seems.
And it turns out that there are some family secrets going on in the house. Dad's a creeper and mom's hopped up on pills.
Cuthbert spends a relatively long portion of the movie in some various stage of undress. Bra and panties, tight tshirt and panties and so on.
Belle is pretty hot even as a schlump.
Falco's hair is that idiotic short version and plastered to her skull that she tried back in 2005 and it looked super shitty, but her body of work is fairly strong. And she pops out the titties in this one.
Donovan has a quality resume.
The story was told reasonably well.
So why did this movie never register?
It cost about 900 grand to make, earned just 27K on opening weekend and finished its run at a little over 300k total. So you could say it was an epic flop.
It leaped off in taboo territory and people just aren't ready for that I don't think. Creeper dad crossed lines that just aren't crossed in movies. I imagine that turned the distributor off and it didn't get any promotion. I'd never heard of it and I am a movie trailer addict. I also think that those who saw it were probably reviled by the creepiness of the dad and nothing else resonated.