From the liner notes

Academy Award® winner Tim Robbins stars as David Owen, a Manhattan husband and father so unhinged by the noise outside his window that he declares a one-man war on car alarms. But when David goes over the edge and becomes a citywide noise-vigilante known as "The Rectifier," he incurs the wrath of New York's sleazy blowhard Mayor (a hilarious performance by Oscar® winner William Hurt) who vows to stop him.