Listening to "The Quiet"

"The Quiet"
In "The Quiet" a deaf mute teenager becomes the unwilling confidante to a family which is not as happy as it initially seems.
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Elisha Cuthbert
Elisha Cuthbert who has made a name for herself in such TV shows as "24" and movies like "House of Wax" plays a cheerleader with a dark secret in the new film "The Quiet."
MPR Photo/Euan Kerr

The dark drama tells what happens when an apparently happy suburban family in Texas adopts a deaf mute teenager called Dot. People begin telling her their darkest secrets. Cuthbert plays Nina, the daughter in Dot's new family.

She's a popular cheerleader. But she's being abused by her father.

Cuthbert and the film's director Jamie Babbit told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr that making the film was tough. Cuthbert said she was drawn to how Nina deals with her troubles.

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