The Quiet (2005)
Thriller about a deaf girl (Camilla Belle) who goes to live with her godparents ( Martin Donovan, and Edie Falco) and their daughter (Elisha Cuthbert), but it quickly transpires when the family use her deafness as a sounding board to air their problems that all is not well and a dark tale of incest, abuse, teenage drama and eventually murder plays out.
Despite it's grim subject matter the fact it plays out like Mean Girls on acid takes away some of the drama replacing it with almost campy black comedy which meant it wasn't as gripping as it could or should have been.
It's nicely played by all the cast, although some of their character's motives are questionable at best.
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