In long flashbacks, David Owen looks back to when he lived in Manhattan with his wife and baby. The unnecessary noises of the city interrupt his life to the point that he takes a baseball bat to the windshield of cars whose alarms are blaring. After a few arrests, his wife kicks him out. On his own, he learns to avoid arrest and leaves a calling card as “The Rectifier” when he breaks into an offending car. Gruska, an enterprising young reporter, tracks him down. He tells her his story, they become lovers, and she organizes a petition drive for a ballot initiative to ban car alarms. The mayor becomes the Rectifier’s bête noire. Can David fight City Hall and win?

Noise (2007)
  • Rating: (2,791 votes)
  • Tagline:The difference is I do something about it. »
  • Runtime:92 minutes
  • Director: Henry Bean
  • Country:USA
  • Actors:
    David Owen
    Tim Robbins
    Helen Owen
    Bridget Moynahan
    Mayor Schneer
    William Hurt
    Ekaterina Filippovna
    Margarita Levieva
    Chris Owen
    Gabrielle Brennan
    Gruska
    María Ballesteros
    Mayor's Chief of Staff
    William Baldwin
    Security Cop #1 (as Eric Lenox Abrams)
    Eric L. Abrams
    Crackpot Anarchist
    Jessica Almasy
    Tiny Juror
    Leora Barish
  • Genres:Comedy, Crime, Drama
  • Producers:
    Henry Bean
    producer  
    Paul de Souza
    executive producer  
    Daniel Diamond
    executive producer  
    Tony Grazia
    co-producer  
    Susan Hoffman
    producer  
    Joseph Zolfo
    associate producer  
  • Plots: In long flashbacks, David Owen looks back to when he lived in Manhattan with his wife and baby. The unnecessary noises of the city interrupt his life to the point that he takes a baseball bat to the windshield of cars whose alarms are blaring. After a few arrests, his wife kicks him out. On his own, he learns to avoid arrest and leaves a calling card as "The Rectifier" when he breaks into an offending car. Gruska, an enterprising young reporter, tracks him down. He tells her his story, they become lovers, and she organizes a petition drive for a ballot initiative to ban car alarms. The mayor becomes the Rectifier's bête noire. Can David fight City Hall and win? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
Noise
  • User's comment:Pretentious and contrived.... by johnbrophy81

    I've been using IMDb for a few years now, but have never written any reviews before. However, this movie so disappointed me (even with a modest score of 6.4 at the time of writing) that I couldn't keep quiet anymore.

    Noise is the story of a New Yorker (Tim Robbins)who is so perturbed by noise pollution that he takes on an alter-ego as a as a vigilante, "The Rectifier", and vandalizes any cars he finds with a car-alarm sounding.

    I take the name of the movie to be somewhat of a misnomer. Although there are one or two instances of other sources of noise being addressed or mentioned, the only true focus of our protagonist is car alarms. Car alarms, car alarms, car alarms. There is really no other focus. When the movie tries to tie other examples of noise pollution to the problem of car alarms, it seems to be just thrown in to give merit to the actions of Robbins' character.

    Yes, we're all annoyed by noise. Nobody likes the sound of car alarms. Of course we all have that internal urge to take a baseball bat to a shrieking vehicle, and this movie uses that fact, and pretty much that fact alone, to sell this movie. I say 'pretty much' because there is also a blatantly contrived sexual relationship (including a completely needless threesome) which is obviously thrown in for those movie-goers who need such things thrown in in order to enjoy a movie. Honestly, it's eye-rolling.

    Robbin's character, very shortly into the movie, becomes completely unrelatable. It seems less that he decides not to put up with the noise anymore, and more that by focusing so much on the noise he has begun to lose his sanity. The first half of the movie is essentially the story of how he turns from just an angry, car-bashing dude into this hero of the little guy, The Rectifier. However... the transformation doesn't take place. He just renames himself.

    I could go on for a while. Annoying generalized social commentary comes in every now and then to add to the pretentiousness of the movie, and the self-satisfied smirk which never quite leaves Robbins face doesn't help either.

    Overall, I think it's very obvious what this movie is trying to be, as it's pretty much shoved down your throat, but in my opinion, it fails in a big way. Just one guy's opinion, cheers.


  • Quotes: Helen Owen: Close the window, you know... don't think about it. David Owen: I can't. Helen Owen: You can't close the window?
  • Also known as: Enough Is Enough (Denmark - DVD title), Justiceiro Urbano (Portugal - imdb display title), Más allá de los limites (Argentina - DVD title), Passando dos Limites (Brazil - imdb display title), Sobrepasando el límite (Spain - imdb display title), The Rectifier (Norway - DVD title), Thoryvos (Greece - DVD title),

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