Photo: #In "The Quiet" a deaf mute teenager becomes the unwilling confidante to a family which is not as happy as it initially seems.
Photo: #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."
Photo: #Director Jamie Babbit likes to make films about what she sees as important subjects. Her first film "But I'm a Cheerleader" was about camps which try to convince gays and lesbians to live a straight lifestyle. Her new film "The Quiet" is about the secrets lying beneath the surface of a cmmunity
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In "The Quiet" a deaf mute teenager becomes the unwilling confidante to a family which is not as happy as it initially seems. (Image courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)
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Listening to "The Quiet"

by Euan Kerr, Minnesota Public Radio
August 31, 2006

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For the last five years actor Elisha Cuthbert has helped stave off international catastrophe as agent Kimberly Bauer in the Fox TV series "24."

This weekend Cuthbert will appear in a very different role in her new movie "The Quiet."

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St. Paul, Minn. — 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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