I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

7/12/18. A teen angst movie about a deaf-mute girl who really isn't. People confide in her thinking that she won't tell anyone else, and then sometimes she intervenes. The incest theme can be a bit disturbing.

So so pleased i bought this after being recommended it on amazon. I just thought it would be a bit of a let down type American pie film but was pleasantly surprised. The film is about Nina. Miss beaufitul, her best friend. Miss dying to have a fella of importance and to ensure Nina doesn't leave school a virgin... such is USA of today... Anyway. In to Nina's seemingly idilic life enters a distant relative a newly bereaved dumb mute girl the family decided to take on for their own reasons, probably being self patting on back for such a brave and selfless action... You see the family, has in fact many flaws, Mother has a legalised drug addiction and daddy is not the gentleman he pretends to be, It is very difficult to watch in bits but is very accurate of human nature and how two three plus dimensional it can be, how people turn things to their own devices. I particularly liked the changing attitude towards Dot when the story unfolds. Very accurate and the way people try so hard to be politically correct in public and in peer groups anything but and in a way i feel her disability is envied and exploited by them, which seems to be why they get so mad later on in the story. well hope you enjoyed my shabby review, and the film further more...

Recap: Having lost both her parents, Dot moves in with her godfather and his family. They live in the suburbs and everything seems to be perfect. Father Paul is a successful architect, mother Olivia an interior decorator, and daughter Nina, who is of the same age as Dot, is a popular cheerleader at school. Dot however, is not popular, she is both deaf and mute, and has no support from Nina at the new school. But behind every façade there are secrets, some worse than others, and what would you do if somebody learned yours? Or you learned someone else's?Comments: A psychological thriller that has it's real strength in its air and emotions. It plays very strongly on feelings and does it very well. There is a very uncomfortable, disturbing feel about the story, it is in the essence of the movie. And that feeling, that it very aptly conveys, is the real strength of the movie. That feeling is what builds suspense, and it manages to build a good amount of suspense. It kept interest and put the story, and hence me as viewer, on its edge.It is good that the movie is strong in its emotions, because the story is a bit predictable. It is fairly easy to reveal both Dot's and Nina's secrets. So the suspense and thrill in this movie is in the psychological approach.Both Camilla Belle and Elisha Cuthbert acts very well in their different roles. As the movie builds on emotion, their performance is crucial for the movie. Fortunately they succeed. Especially Camilla impresses me, though I'm not really surprised since I thought she has performed very well in other movies.From some reviews I have gathered that this is almost a movie you either love or hate. I'm not sure I can say I really love it, but I thought it was very good and enjoyed it much.7/10

This one's got me stumped. I hate to think in categorical terms -- it's so lazy -- but either I didn't get the message here or else there's no message to get.Teen-aged Camilla Belle pretends to be a deaf mute and moves in with her godparents, Martin Donovan and Edie Falco. They have a daughter, Elisha Cuthbert, who is a high-school sexpot with long blond hair, a cheerleader to boot. Belle, I gather, has opted for elective mutism because she has been disillusioned and wants to build a protective wall between herself and others. It doesn't work.She discovers that the ordinary family she was looking for is, in fact, all screwed up. Let's see. Dope addiction, incest, fake pregnancies, bitter jealousies, smoking, boozing, unwarranted cruelty, attention deficit disorder, Sturm und Drang, and losing a high-school basketball game -- the usual stuff of daytime dramas.Camilla Belle is not unattractive and one doubts that in real life she needs to be so shy and guarded, but it doesn't help that in this film she mopes around looking dour. Before her first dance at the high school, Elisha Cuthbert chides her for dressing like a janitor. And, earlier, pretending to enhance Belle's appearance, she applies some lipstick and we see what Camilla doesn't immediately see -- that it's smeared all over her lips so she looks like a parody of a whore. Belle's saving grace is that she plays Beethoven once in a while on the piano. The same piano from which she removes a broken wire in order to garrote her godfather.Martin Donovan as the incestuous and jealous father has a face with the appeal of a russet potato and a voice to match. Oh, he's a villain alright, but it's hard not to see why he's been boffing his own daughter. Cuthbert may be forbidden fruit but, after all, she bounces about the house sporting a bosom of considerable authority and she's constantly glamorizing herself, on top of which she's been seducing the whole basketball team and using the f word all over the place. And when her Dad makes love to her, she doesn't seem to particularly mind it. Like many sexual partners, she doesn't seem to care much one way or the other. As she confesses to Belle, she hates it when her father makes love to her -- but she loves it too. As far as we can tell, she never tells her father to get lost. Instead, she claims to be pregnant and milks him out of a thousand dollars in cash.But why go on with the plot when it all adds up to nothing much more than a series of incidents designed to tell us that loving is feigning and friendship mere folly. The movie's not only quiet. It's positively dark.It really IS dark! There must have been at least one scene shot outdoors in sunshine but I don't remember it. The direction is melancholy but efficient. There is only one nod to the cheap slasher movie genre. Cuthbert, ironing the skirt of her cheerleader's uniform, has gulled her dad into coming to her room for a bout of incest. She tells her father than she has a surprise for him and he should close his eyes. Then there are multiple cuts between Dad's placid and uninteresting face and Cuthbert's steaming iron as she lifts it and brings it closer and closer to his face. The viewer waits for poor Donovan to get the kind of surprise that really comes as a surprise when -- suddenly -- they are interrupted by a sound coming from elsewhere. Gosh. And I was waiting with such eagerness to see if ironing Donovan's face would alter it in any way.I don't know what the ending was all about. Here is Dad's garroted body lying on the bedroom floor and Edie Falco as his dissolute wife sitting near it and looking a little gloomy. She finally calls the police and tells them that she did it during an argument. Is she so doped up that she doesn't remember what happened? Is she doing it because she feels guilty about not having protected her daughter? Guilty for something else? Nobody knows and the writers don't seem to care.The final shot has Belle and Cuthbert seated at the piano, with the former teaching the latter how to play Beethoven. Belle's narration tells us that you can't shut other people out because, although you might not be able to deal with them, they always know you're there. It's a new take on an old message. Not only can't you run away from yourself -- you can't run away from others either. Truer words were never spoken.