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Noise |  | Director: Henry Bean
Actors: Tim Robbins, William Baldwin, William Hurt, Bridget Moynahan, Keir O'Donnell
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Category: DVD
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 30656
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 92 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 16156
UPC: 013131615692
EAN: 0013131615692
ASIN: B001AYWY9K
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: September 16, 2008
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Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 09/16/2008
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Of all the noxious aspects to modern life, the one that people seem to most passively put up with is noise pollution--random car alarms, horns, sirens, screeching machinery and the like. Perhaps because there's no single "bad guy" behind the creeping situation, there've been few movements against it. Which leaves the perfect opening for Noise, Henry Bean's allegory about a one-man vigilante for peace and quiet, played with torment and depth by the always-dependable Tim Robbins. Robbins plays David, a devoted husband and father who becomes so distressed--then obsessed--by the noise in his adopted home of Manhattan that he snaps (quietly, of course). The film channels Falling Down, but also has elements of Batman and other superhero dramas, as David takes on the persona of The Rectifier--breaking into cars whose alarms go off incessantly and dismantling the alarms. His obsession takes deeper and more dangerous turns, and he becomes both public enemy No. 1 (in the eyes of the city's unctuous mayor, played splendidly by William Hurt, who calls him "nothing but a two-bit vigilante") and a hero to the everyjoes as rattled by the needless racket as David is. Bean's storytelling is also creative, playing with time and chronology, as David's focus shifts and darkens. One wonders periodically why David doesn't take up the suggestion of his wife (Bridget Moynahan) to move to the leafy suburbs, or even back to the Midwest. But no matter: The Rectifier is on a mission. "I used to think there's nothing you could do about the noise," David muses at one point. "But once you get started, it's easy. It's stopping that's hard." The disc includes a fascinating commentary by writer-director Bean, who based the character of David on himself, years earlier when he broke into cars to turn off their alarms, even serving jail time for the offenses. --A.T. Hurley
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 How Could You Not Like This? September 16, 2008
CB (Ohio)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I feel like I watched a diff movie than the first reviewer, cos I really loved this movie. I liked the grittiness and realism it displayed. And even without that, how could anyone NOT enjoy a movie starring Tim Robbins, William Hurt and the gorgeous & talented Bridget Moynahan? How many of us have gritted our teeth and at times felt like throwing a chair through the window when the noise outside gets so loud and persistent you feel like you're losing it? This movie is not unlike the Michael Douglas vehicle, Falling Down, where he went slowly nuts and took it out on bullies and bad guys. I watched this movie at a private screening when it was first released and I jumped at the chance to own a copy for my private library. Highly recommend this movie.
Delightful and original April 23, 2009
Brian Long (Ogden, UT USA)
Noise is an fantastic deviation from the norm that sadly did not make enough of a splash when it was released, which was only 2 years ago I was amazed to find out. Robbins plays alawyer that is constantly annoyed with the noise of living in New York city. Added on top of the stresses of his home life and work, Robbins begins to take the fight to the source, becoming a high profile vandal known as the Rectefier. His attacks on his foe draw the ire of the mayor of New York City, and the battle between them for Robbins sanity follows a variety of interesting turns.
Robbins acting in this is top notch, supported by several smaller names, most of whom held their weight, but was nearly poisoned by a few parts that felt overblown and outrageous.
There are quite a few scenes that feel drastically out of place, and Robbins tailspin marriage and separated affair feels a bit overdone, almost to the point of softcore pornography. But aside from this weird turn, the movie was hysterical, with several scenes worth watching repeatedly, and an ending message that's uplifting and empowering, that the little guy can still slay the giant.
Meet the Rectifier...a new kind of superhero October 27, 2008
K. Eckert (Minneapolis, MN)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a very tongue-in-cheek dark comedy about a man who takes the Noise in his life very seriously. Tim Robbins plays David, a man who is so distracted by the noise surrounding him in New York city that he cannot live a normal life. His solution, to become the Rectifier, a vigilante sneak who gives people with those darn car alarms exactly what they deserve no matter what the cost.
This movie was hilarious, if a bit sad at times. This is not an action film but David nonetheless sees himself as a superhero of sorts. In typical superhero style he has to loose everything to become the vigilante he wants to be. The difference this time is losing it is his choice, kind of.
Where the movie started to fail a little bit was when David's new love interest talks him into trying to get legislation against noise put into place. This is a bit weird, and the movie takes itself a bit too seriously.
Still as a dry, dark comedy this movie had me and my husband in stitches most of the time. Just don't take it too seriously or try to get a message out of it. If you need some sort of significant question to ponder from this movie it would be broader than the topics investigated in the movie. I guess it would be this, "What would happen if people stopped tolerating every annoyance they deal with in a day and started to really do something about?" The answer is probably chaos, but it is still funny to contemplate.
Tim Robbins at his best December 29, 2008
Reader (Boca Raton, FL)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Tim Robbins plays well to do NYC attorney married to a beautiful wife who is a classical musician. Their daughter is a product of their mutual and genuine love for each other and everything seems fine until one day during his wife's home rehearsal of the cello piece her husband gets annoyed by a car alarm. It does not stop there. Suddenly car alarms are everywhere waking up his young daughter in the late hours of the night, disturbing lovemaking between him and his wife. It all escalates when one day our hero is caught by a police breaking into a car in order to shut off the car alarm by disabling the car battery. His life seems to spiral from there on; first, he is fined for damage, then he is kicked out of the house by his wife and finally he looses his job. Without family, job and in the new apartment, all that is left is to fight noises in the NYC. Our hero becoimes known as a "Rectifier" (very funny!), man who takes on single handedly car alarms in the city, until the mayor decides that this battle is personal. William Hurt is fantastic in his role of a mayor who is more concerned about being liked by his constituents than doing the right thing. I loved the part of the movie where Robins vandalizes car in a manner of their alarm tune - each swing corresponds to the tune of the alarm. Robbins is funny, sexy adn totaly likable in his role. Definitely another one of the movies where Robbins is making his statement, but this is quite funny and deeply human movie. It is almost impossible not to identify parts of any one of us with his character. Great movie.
Noise Pollution! March 28, 2009
YJM (Somewhere In The South)
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this movie. While I don't share Tim Robbins or his wife's political views, I have also enjoyed Tim Robbins the actor. He has a very natural, easy way about him. The supporting cast are also very good.
The subject of noise pollution is near and dear to my heart. I'm extremely sensitive to external noises, whether it be an annoying car alarm, a neighbors annoying dog barking, idiots driving by with a 1,000 watts of stereo system in their car (and wanting everyone to know it), annoyingly loud garbage trucks (touched on in the movie) etc. We seem to live in a world that is increasingly self-centered, where people only care about their own needs. Rudeness abounds. I guess as our cities become more and more populated increasing noise pollution is the expected result, but it's disturbing how many of the noise polluters truly don't care about the fact they are bothering someone else. Our cities have gotten noisier and ruder and this film tackles those issues head on. I found it to be refreshingly original, funny, well written, and well acted.
One star was deducted for a scene involving two women spreading their legs for each other and admiring how "pretty" and how "ugly" their respective vagina's look. One of the women then goes on to complain about how bad it makes her feel to have an ugly looking vagina. Really, the whole scene should have been cut, it was pointless, vulgar, and very distasteful.
Still, I highly recommend this movie just for it's sheer originality. Such a simple concept, man goes vigilante after being fed up with loud, obnoxious car alarms. A really neat movie evolved from that simple idea, and while there is very little creativity in Hollyweird these days, the independents can still be counted on for that.
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