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The QuietDirector: Jamie BabbitCast: Elisha Cuthbert, Camilla Belle, Edie Falco, Martin Donovan, Shawn Ashmore, Katy Mixon(Sony Pictures Classics, 2005) Rated: R US DVD release date: 13 February 2006 (Sony) [31 August 2006] by Cynthia FuchsPopMatters Film and TV Editor DramaramaThe Quiet makes the conventional observation that this "world" is instituted by adults, and also mirrored and prepared for in high school.
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