History Film / TheQuiet

* TheReveal: Nina comes home one day to hear Dot playing the piano until [[spoiler:one of the strings breaks and Dot exclaims "Shit!," revealing that she can talk.]]

* EvilCounterpart: Dot and her father were genuinely very close, while Paul is an abusive rapist to his daughter Nina.

* AllMenArePerverts: Of the two major male characters, [[spoiler:Paul rapes his own daughter, and Connor uses Dot's deaf-muteness to share his gross sexual fantasies with her.

* AllMenArePerverts: Of the two major male characters, Paul rapes his own daughter, and Connor uses Dot's deaf-muteness to share his gross sexual fantasies with her. Dot's dad seems normal, though.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: You are not going to feel sorry for Nina's father Paul at all when he is murdered by Dot, as he had just attempted to rape Nina (having already previously raped her multiple times).]]

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: You are not going to feel sorry for Nina's father Paul at all when he is murdered by Dot]]

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The broken piano wire.]]
* DaddysGirl: Dot was one to her late father and is still in mourning. Nina is one too, [[spoiler: but it's not what everyone thinks.]]

* EvilCounterpart: Dot and her father were genuinely very close, while Paul is an abusive rapist.

* HairContrastDuo: The blonde, popular Nina and the silent, dark-haired Dot.

* JerkAss[=/=]JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Nina keeps going back and forth between these two when it comes to Dot. [[spoiler:Eventually, she and Dot end up friends/adoptive sisters.]]
* ObfuscatingDisability: [[spoiler:Dot is pretending to be deaf]], which causes everyone to assume she has a learning disability too for some reason, and for Nina and Connor to share their secrets with her.
%%* ParentalIncest: [[spoiler:Nina and her dad.]]

* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler: Dot]] saves [[spoiler: Nina]] from a violent rape in the climax.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Dot dresses decidedly more masculine than Nina does, much to Nina's annoyance.

''The Quiet'' is a 2005 drama-thriller directed by Jamie Babbit and starring Creator/ElishaCuthbert and Camilla Belle. Dot (Belle) is a deaf-mute teenager whose father has recently died and who was taken in by the Deer family, old friends of her parents. Nina (Cuthbert) is the daughter of the Deer family, somewhat resentful of Dot, who (suspecting that Dot may actually be able to hear) starts telling her disturbing things about her family and her life.

* ObfuscatingDisability: [[spoiler:Dot is pretending to be deaf, which causes everyone to assume she has a learning disability too for some reason, and for Nina and Connor to share their secrets with her.
* ParentalIncest: [[spoiler:Nina and her dad.]]

* TheQuietOne: Dot. She's not TheVoiceless because we get to hear her inner monologues [[spoiler:and because it's revealed she can hear.]]

* SecretKeeper: Played straight, inverted, subverted, defied and more. [[spoiler: Dot can hear but pretends to be deaf. Conner and Paul confess embarrassing and dark secrets to Dot, thinking she can't hear them. Nina does the same thing knowing that Dot '''can''' hear her, but can't let on. Dot does nothing to stop Nina threat to kill Paul (though Nina doesn't go through with it). After Dot kills Paul to save Nina, Olivia, who witnessed that whole thing, takes the fall.]]

* VillainousIncest: [[spoiler:Nina and Paul.]]

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The broken piano wire.]]

* LudwigVanBeethoven: His sonatas are all over the soundtrack and Dot talks about him in her monologues a lot, as they're both deaf pianists.

* LudwigVanBeethoven: his sonatas are all over the soundtrack and Dot talks about him in her monologues a lot, as they're both deaf pianists.

''The Quiet'' is a 2005 drama-thriller directed by Jamie Babbit and starring Elisha Cuthbert and Camilla Belle. Dot (Belle) is a deaf-mute teenager whose father has recently died and who was taken in by the Deer family, old friends of her parents. Nina (Cuthbert) is the daughter of the Deer family, somewhat resentful of Dot, who (suspecting that Dot may actually be able to hear) starts telling her disturbing things about her family and her life.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Dot dresses decidedly more masculine than Nina does, much to Nina's annoyance.

* TheAloner: Dot, thanks to her deaf-muteness. Even when people (such as Conner) express interest in her she has a tendency to brush them off
* DoggedNiceGuy: Conner is very into Dot despite her acting relatively cool towards him. [[spoiler: However, the "Nice Guy" part of the trope is debatable given his using Dot's deafness to confess to her a wide variety of sexually explicit things, and he rejects her when he learns she can hear]]
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: the broken piano wire]]
* JerkAss[=/=]JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Nina keeps going back and forth between these two when it comes to Dot. [[spoiler: eventually she and Dot end up friends/adoptive sisters]]
* LudwigVanBeethoven: his sonatas are all over the soundtrack and Dot talks about him in her monologues a lot, as they're both deaf pianists
* ParentalIncest: [[spoiler: Nina and her dad]]
* PrecisionFStrike: "Shit!" Mostly for who says it rather than what is said; [[spoiler: it reveals that Dot can talk]]
* TheQuietOne: Dot. She's not TheVoiceless because we get to hear her inner monologues [[spoiler: and because it's revealed she can hear]]
* TheReveal: Nina comes home one day to hear Dot playing the piano until [[spoiler: one of the strings breaks and Dot exclaiming "Shit!," revealing that she can talk]]
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Dot dresses decidedly more masculine than Nina does, much to Nina's annoyance

TheQuiet is a 2005 drama-thriller directed by Jamie Babbit and starring Elisha Cuthbert and Camilla Belle. Dot (Belle) is a deaf-mute teenager whose father has recently died and who was taken in by the Deer family, old friends of her parents. Nina (Cuthbert) is the daughter of the Deer family, somewhat resentful of Dot, who (suspecting that Dot may actually be able to hear) starts telling her disturbing things about her family and her life.

* ChekovsGun: [[spoiler: the broken piano wire]]
* JerkAss / JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Nina keeps going back and forth between these two when it comes to Dot. [[spoiler: eventually she and Dot end up friends/adoptive sisters]]

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Dot dresses decidedly more masculinely than Nina does, much to Nina's annoyance

* JerkAss/JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Nina keeps going back and forth between these two when it comes to Dot. [[spoiler: eventually she and Dot end up friends/adoptive sisters]]

TheQuiet is a 2005 drama=thriller directed by Jamie Babbit and starring Elisha Cuthbert and Camilla Belle. Dot (Belle) is a deaf-mute teenager whose father has recently died and who was taken in by the Deer family, old friends of her parents. Nina (Cuthbert) is the daughter of the Deer family, somewhat resentful of Dot, who (suspecting that Dot may actually be able to hear) starts telling her disturbing things about her family and her life.

* JerkAss/JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Nina keeps going back and forth between these two when it comes to Dot. [[spoiler: eventually she decides to be nice to Dot]]
* LesYay: between Dot and Nina. Given the director this was probably intentional

* LudwigVonBeethoven: his sonatas are all over the soundtrack and Dot talks about him in her monologues a lot, as they're both deaf pianists