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A silent parable for parenthood

In A Quiet Place, Blunt and Krasinski play parents facing an unthinkable horror

A FEW WEEKS INTO DATING, JOHN KRASINSKI AND Emily Blunt watched one of their first movies together: Jaws. They watched it over and over again, Krasinski says, as many as nine times in the next few months. It wasn’t for the thrill, as Blunt puts it, of “seeing people’s legs get munched off.” What they loved most are its human moments. The one in which Roy Scheider’s defeated police chief is uplifted

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