Noise

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Love the Hard Way

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Rolling Stone

Rating: NONE

Running Time: 87 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Tim Robbins, Bridget Moynahan, William Hurt, Margarita Levieva, Gabrielle Brennan, Maria Ballesteros, William Baldwin, Keir O'Donnell, Jessica Almasy, Ramon Fernandez

director: Henry Bean

Noise

David is a successful lawyer who can't stand the fact that Manhattan is a place where it's too noisy to get a good night's sleep, listen to his wife play classical music, or even make love. Every time he hears a car alarm going off, he swings into action. His acts of vandalism generate no end of grief from his wife, and make him politically controversial when he engages the ire of the city's arrogant mayor.

PETER TRAVERS - May 29, 2008

What if a New Yorker got so pissed off at noise on the streets that he transformed himself into "the Rectifier" and took action against car alarms? Writer-director Henry Bean, the master behind The Believer, is that man. But instead of turning vigilante, he made a movie about it, put in Tim Robbins as the Rectifier and William Hurt as the mayor who opposes him, and worked out variations on a theme. It's wickedly amusing for a little bit — Robbins and Hurt really get into it — but ultimately the…