Noise (2007 U.S. film)

Infobox Film
name = Noise


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director = Henry Bean
producer = Seven Arts Pictures
Fuller Films
writer = Henry Bean
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starring = Tim Robbins
Bridget Moynahan
William Hurt
William Baldwin
music = Phillip Johnston
cinematography = Andrij Parekh
editing = Julie Carr
distributor = THINKFilm
released = 2007-10-22
runtime = 88 min.
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language = English
Russian
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amg_id = 1:421372
imdb_id = 0425308

"Noise" is a comedy drama film written and directed by Henry Bean. It stars Tim Robbins and Bridget Moynahan. Robbins plays a successful lawyer in Manhattan named David Owen who is bothered by all the noise in the city, and who resorts to vandalism to put a stop to it, adopting the identity of "The Rectifier." His acts of vandalism provoke the mayor of the city, played by William Hurt.

The film premiered October 22, 2007 at the Rome Film Festival. It was later shown at the AFI Film Festival on November 6, 2007. It opened in limited release in the United States on May 9, 2008.cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425308/releaseinfo |title=Noise (2007/II) - Release dates |accessdate=2008-05-13 |publisher=Internet Movie Database]

Cast

*Tim Robbins as David Owen
*Bridget Moynahan as Helen Owen
*William Hurt as Mayor Schneer
*Margarita Levieva as Ekaterina Filippovna
*Gabrielle Brennan as Chris Owen
*María Ballesteros as Gruska
*William Baldwin as Mayor's Chief of Staff
*Lou Carbonneau as Dante Moretti
*Chuck Cooper as Judge Gibson
*Stephen Adly Guirgis as Anthony J. Corpitani
*Helen Hanft as Forceful Juror
*Peter Hoffman as Judge Kornreich
*Aaron Lohr as Rowdy Drinker
*David Margulies as Heart Attack Man
*Keir O'Donnell as Experienced Car Thief

Production

Henry Bean has called the film partly autobiographical. Stephen Holden wrote that the film "is the second part of a projected "fanatic trilogy" that began with "The Believer"."

Critical reception

The film received mixed reviews from critics. As of May 13, 2008, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 50% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 20 reviews. [cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10009816-noise/ |title=Noise Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes |accessdate=2008-05-13 |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes] Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 52 out of 100, based on 11 reviews. [cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/noise |title=Noise (2008): Reviews |accessdate=2008-05-13 |publisher=Metacritic]

"The New York Times" film critic Stephen Holden called "Noise" "a one-trick film that rapidly wears out its welcome." Holden said the film "is shallow and loud" and "lurches unsteadily between drama and comedy." Holden wrote "Its performances are discordant" and said "you have to wonder to what degree Mr. Robbins, an actor famous for his political activism, is here simply because he shares Mr. Bean's outrage."cite web|url=http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/movies/09nois.html |title=Aural Examination |accessdate=2008-05-13 |author=Stephen Holden |date=2008-05-09 |work=The New York Times]

David Denby of "The New Yorker" wrote that the film "is certainly odd, but the movie is alive with the creative madness of New York." Denby said "Surely a more glamorous actor would have given "Noise" a lighter, more satirical spin, but Robbins makes David a lost, unhappy man who needs to save himself, and that's the right way to go—it turns a one-note story into a universal fable." Denby praised the performance of Margarita Levieva as Ekatrina. Denby wrote "What saves "Noise"—and makes it almost continuously entertaining—is Bean's sense of the city as a gathering place of clever, chattering people."cite web|url=http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2008/05/19/080519crci_cinema_denby |title=The Unquiet Life |accessdate=2008-05-14 |author=David Denby |date=2008-05-19 |work=The New Yorker]

Box office performance

The film opened in limited release in the United States on May 9, 2008 and grossed $3,697 in 2 theaters its opening weekend. [cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=noise.htm |title=Noise (2008) - Weekend Box Office Results |accessdate=2008-05-13 |publisher=Box Office Mojo]

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0425308|title=Noise
*rotten-tomatoes|id=10009816-noise|title=Noise
*metacritic film|id=noise|title=Noise
*mojo title|id=noise|title=Noise
*amg movie|id=1:421372|title=Noise