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''The Quiet'' is a 2005 drama-thriller directed by Jamie Babbit and starring Creator/ElishaCuthbert and Creator/CamillaBelle. 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.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AllMenArePerverts: Of the two major male characters, [[spoiler:Paul rapes his own daughter]], and Connor uses Dot's deaf-muteness to share his sexual fantasies with her thinking she won't get it.
* 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.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:You are not going to feel sorry for Nina's father Paul at all when he is killed by Dot, as he had just attempted to rape Nina (having already previously raped her multiple times).]]
* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler: Paul]] tries to rape [[spoiler: Nina]] in the climax but is stopped by [[spoiler: Dot]]. [[spoiler: She]] also prevents [[spoiler: Paul]] from abusing [[spoiler: Nina]] earlier in the film by smashing a vase outside their door.
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The broken piano wire. Dot later uses it to strangle Paul.]]
* 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. He has actually raped Nina.]]
* 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.]]
* EvilCounterpart: Dot and her father were genuinely very close, while [[spoiler:Paul is an abusive rapist to his daughter Nina]].
* FakePregnancy: [[spoiler: Nina attempts this to facilitate her escape from Paul. It fails miserably.]]
* HairContrastDuo: The blonde, talkative, popular Nina and the silent, dark-haired unpopular Dot.
* HandSignals: Dot is deaf-mute, so she mostly communicates by using American Sign Language. The school lunch lady also knows ASL as her son is deaf, and speaks to Dot using it. [[spoiler:However, it turns out that Dot is able to hear and speak, having learned this as her father was deaf.]]
* IAmAMonster: [[spoiler:Paul confesses to Dot early on that he's sick and hates what he's done. It turns out he's molesting Nina, his daughter. His self-hatred doesn't stop him from doing it more though.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Nina is initially very cruel to Dot, resenting her being with Nina's family. [[spoiler:Over time she warms up to Dot though. Eventually, she and Dot end up friends/adoptive sisters.]]
* LingerieScene: Nina has multiple scenes in her underwear as she's ironing her cheerleader uniform, which shows off her beauty. This gets creepy however in the scene with her dad as well there [[spoiler:especially since he's molesting her]].
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: [[spoiler:Connor and Dot have sex beside their school's pool.]]
* ObfuscatingDisability: [[spoiler:Dot is pretending to be deaf and mute]], which causes other teens to claim she's also mentally disabled, and for Nina and Connor to share their secrets with her.
* ParentalAbandonment: Dot's mom died of cancer when she was seven. After that, her dad died from being hit by a truck. She's sent off to be with her godparents after this, to the annoyance of their daughter Nina.
* ParentalIncest: [[spoiler:Nina and her dad. He's been molesting Nina for some time when the story starts.]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Nina and her friends all make cruel jokes about Dot's disabilities, while also claiming she's mentally disabled too, for no reason but to pick on her. Initially, they're the antagonists.
* 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 and speak.]]
* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler:Nina is being raped by her dad, it turns out. Dot saves Nina from attempted rape in the climax by him as well.]]
* 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]].
** Dot also soon discovers [[spoiler:Nina is being raped by her dad]].
* SecretKeeper: Played straight, inverted, subverted, defied and more. [[spoiler: Dot can hear and talk but pretends to be deaf-mute. 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's 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.]]
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Dot wears very masculine clothing with her hair short and shaggy. Nina on the other hand is a GirlyGirl cheerleader with long hair and feminine outfits. She's contemptuous about Dot's style. Dot does get into a flattering dress for the dance near the end though.
* TurnTheOtherCheek: Dot never shows the slightest dislike of Nina for her cruel jokes and treatment. [[spoiler:Once she learns Nina's being abused by her dad she rescues Nina from him in fact, and they bond.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:The incestuous relationship between Nina and Paul is clearly spoiled on this wiki.]]
%%* VillainousIncest: [[spoiler:Nina and Paul.]]
* YouNeedToGetLaid: Michelle keeps pressuring Nina with this trope, thinking that her friend is a frustrated virgin. The truth is [[ParentalIncest far more complicated]].