Little Noises is a 1991 drama/comedy film. It follows the life of an awkward and unsuccessful writer (Crispin Glover

Crispin Glover

Crispin Hellion Glover is an American film actor, director and screenwriter, recording artist, publisher, and author. Glover is known for portraying eccentric people on screen such as George McFly in Back to the Future, Layne in River's Edge, unfriendly recluse Rubin Farr in Rubin and Ed, the...

) who dates a playwright (Tatum O'Neal

Tatum O'Neal

Tatum Beatrice O'Neal is an American actress best known for her film work as a child actress in the 1970s. She is the youngest to win a competitive Academy Award, at the age of 10, which she won for her performance as Addie Loggins in Paper Moon opposite her father Ryan O'Neal...

) and shares a room with an unsuccessful actor (Steven Schub). He steals the poems of a deaf-mute (Matthew Hutton). After claiming them as his own, he shows them to a literary agent (Rik Mayall

Rik Mayall

Richard Michael "Rik" Mayall is an English comedian, writer, and actor. He is known for his comedy partnership with Ade Edmondson, his over-the-top, energetic portrayal of characters, and as a pioneer of alternative comedy in the early 1980s...

) who is so impressed that he immediately advances the writer hundreds of dollars.

Jane Spencer

Jane Spencer

Jane Spencer is an American Filmmaker who co-wrote and directed the film Little Noises, with lead actors Crispin Glover, Tatum O'Neal and Rik Mayall which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, was screened at the Goteborg Film Festival , Wine Valley Festival and was distributed in the USA and...

, fresh out of UT, directs her first movie, aiming for a comedy. It is in fact billed as "a little comedy in the Big Apple".