Sliver (1993)

A woman moves into an exclusive New York City apartment building, which she soon discovers houses tenants with all manner of shocking secrets.

Director:

Phillip Noyce

Writers:

Ira Levin (novel), Joe Eszterhas (screenplay)

Stars:

Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger

4 wins & 9 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Sharon Stone	...	Carly Norris
William Baldwin	...	Zeke Hawkins
Tom Berenger	...	Jack Landsford
Polly Walker	...	Vida Warren
Colleen Camp	...	Judy Marks
Amanda Foreman	...	Samantha Moore
Martin Landau	...	Alex Parsons
CCH Pounder	...	Lt. Victoria Hendrix
Nina Foch	...	Evelyn McEvoy
Keene Curtis	...	Gus Hale
Nicholas Pryor	...	Peter Farrell
Anne Betancourt	...	Jackie Kinsella
Tony Peck	...	Martin Kinsella
Frantz Turner	...	Doorman #1
Melvyn Kinder	...	Dr. Palme (as Dr. Melvyn Kinder)

Storyline

Carly Norris is a book editor living in New York City who moves into the Sliver apartment building. In the apartment building, Carly meets two of her new neighbors, author Jack Lansford who writes thriller novels and Zeke Hawkins, the handsome owner of the apartment building. Carly finds that some of the women living in the apartment building have been murdered and the police suspect that there is a serial killer in the apartment building. Carly has a passionate and seductive love affair with Zeke, unaware Zeke has secretly wired the apartment building with hidden cameras and he has been watching the lives of each tenant living in the apartment building including Carly. Carly begins to suspect Zeke or Jack may be the serial killer responsible for the murders in the apartment building and she may be the killer's next victim.

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Plot Keywords:

masturbation | hidden camera | female pubic hair | erotic thriller | female removes her clothes | 

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Taglines:

You like to watch... don't you

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Genres:

Drama | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong sexuality, and for language and violence

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

21 May 1993 (USA)

Also Known As:

Garasu no to

Filming Locations:

California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$40,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$12,138,283, 23 May 1993, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$36,300,000

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$116,300,000

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Pictures, Robert Evans Company

Technical Specs

Runtime:

107 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR (as Dolby Stereo SR)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.39 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Joe Eszterhas's original ending was incomprehensible to test audiences and an alternate ending had to be quickly devised and shot. Eszterhas cracked out five different endings in three days.

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Goofs

Polly Walker's digital answering machine makes sounds of a tape transport machine as it intercepts a message.

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Quotes

Carly Norris: It's like playing God.
Zeke Hawkins: We'll do only good things.

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Alternate Versions

The US R-rated version was originally going to screen in Australian cinemas with an MA rating, but this was changed and the uncut version was shown instead with an R rating. The uncut version was also released on VHS.

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Connections

Featured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Voyeur Movies (2015)

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Soundtracks

Oh Carolina
Performed by Shaggy
Contains the "Peter Gunn Theme" by Henry Mancini

User Reviews

Watch it for the gorgeous Sharon Stone.

Sliver is billed as an erotic thriller. It is erotic all right but there isn't much thrill in here. A young, good looking female moves into a tall building in NYC but it turns out there are a lot of skeletons hiding among the residents. Billy Baldwin is the male lead although this is Stone's film. Although the sex scenes are good there is no story to go with it. Upon looking at the wiki article I saw that the film was a financial disaster and I can see why. One needs a good foundation- a script of worth on which all the other features can stand. Sliver gets the erotic bits alright but fails to deliver a story. Still, worth a watch.