Sparrows Dance is a 2012 American independent romantic drama film written and directed by Noah Buschel and starring Marin Ireland and Paul Sparks.

An agoraphobic actress goes about her unchanging daily routine alone in her New York City apartment, until an overflowing toilet forces her to call in a plumber to fix the leak.

[7][8][9] Buschel wrote about Tribeca Film's homogenized trailer for Sparrows Dance in the essay "A Strange Baby in the Machine".

"[8] Moveable Fest wrote "there are just two characters on one set in Buschel’s follow-up to the Michael Shannon-Amy Ryan underseen detective story The Missing Person, and yet in telling the spare story of a young woman (Marin Ireland) who sequesters herself to a small New York flat after experiencing a debilitating fear of the outside world, the filmmaker is able to create a rather grand romance.

"[2] Even details where praised like Farran Smith Nehme, from New York Post, who said: "Given that the opening shot shows the heroine on the toilet, what a nice surprise to find that this is a pure love story, told with elegance and simplicity on a low budget."