Noise Page #5

Synopsis: 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?
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Henry Bean
Production: ThinkFilm
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
55
Rotten Tomatoes:
57%
NOT RATED
Year:
2007
92 min
Website
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Just whack it down on the sh*t

sheet, put it in the out tray

- and Johnno will fax them in the morning.

- Sweet.

Yeah, slack as.

Oh, and there's this

safe-sex thing happening also.

Free frangers for anyone

with any information.

There's a box of them in the

top drawer of the kitchenette.

So this is the guy

from the train?

Yep.

He did this as well?

F*** knows. Yes, if you

believe the rumors...

about the same ballistics

coming out of the girl

and a couple of people

on the train.

But who knows?

Probably.

Well, no, definitely

if you ask me,

but it's not on

our job sheet, so...

Looks like

the shroud of Turin.

Yeah.

Poor love thinks she's

seen Jesus or something.

Half the mouth-breathers

around here would say she did.

Speaking of which,

has anyone told you

about lucky Phil?

Okay.

Photo.

- Sorry.

Excuse me.

The bag.

No no no, shh.

No no, shh shh.

Just shut up.

Just shut up.

Shh shh shh.

It's okay.

No no no.

I'm okay.

Did anyone call the police?

Then he walks

down the carriage?

Yep.

Ahh!

- Comes back?

- Yeah.

Then what?

Then he put the gun

up to my head.

- Then what?

- Then he left.

He just left?

He just up and left?

- Yeah.

- Which door?

- I don't know.

- You don't know.

How did he get the photograph

without you noticing?

I don't know.

Come here.

What aren't you

telling me, Lavinia?

- Noel.

- No, please.

Why is this the bit that's missing

in all the statements you've made?

Why is this the part you

can't tell me anything about?

- What happened?

- I don't know.

- Just tell me please.

- What?

- Did you know him?

- Noel.

- Please!

- What?

- Had you seen him before?

- No!

Do you think he knew you? Had

you served him in the restaurant?

- No, I've never seen him.

- Why then?

Why do you think,

after all this...

Seven people,

Why, do you think,

did he let you go?

Don't you think

he should've?

What's on telly?

Is that the one where the

fat people get voted off?

I know, well, the gay guys

are always the funniest.

It's true.

I know, I know.

It's reality TV.

Soon it'll just be people

going to the toilet.

Who will get voted

off the toilet, you know?

G'day.

Hey.

John Smith.

You're kidding,

aren't you?

No.

No, it's just...

Sorry.

I guess it's not as bad

as John Citizen.

What do you mean?

Nothing.

I'm Graham McGahan.

How was your shift?

It was pretty

quiet, John.

Hmm, yeah.

I've had two interviews,

One with lucky Phil.

You've heard about him?

Two interviews,

one with a spastic.

No, I don't... sorry.

I don't mean it like that.

It's just frustrating,

you know?

Mmm. Hmmm.

Three.

Right,

thank you, gentlemen.

Shut your engine off,

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Henry Bean

Henry Bean (born 1945) is an American screenwriter, film director, film producer, novelist, and actor. Most famous as a screenwriter, Bean wrote the screenplays for Internal Affairs, Deep Cover, Venus Rising, The Believer, Basic Instinct 2 and Noise. The Believer was awarded the dramatic Grand Jury Prize at the 2001 Sundance Festival and the Golden St. George at the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival.Bean, who is Jewish, also acted in The Believer, and was a producer on Deep Cover and Noise. He was the director for The Believer and Noise. Bean is also the inspiration for the protagonist of Noise. He was so tired of constant noise around him and his home in New York that he decided to take the law into his own hands. If a car alarm was going off and the owner of the vehicle didn't rectify the situation, Bean would break into the car to disable the offending car alarm. Bean was eventually arrested and jailed. He admits to doing it a few more times since. more…

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