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Sliver movie 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.
Sliver is a 1993 erotic thriller film based on the Ira Levin novel of the same name about the mysterious occurrences in a privately owned New York high-rise apartment building.[2] Phillip Noyce directed the film, from a screenplay by Joe Eszterhas.[3] Because of a major battle with the MPAA (which originally gave the film an NC-17 rating), the filmmakers were forced to make extensive reshoots before release. These reshoots actually necessitated changing the killer’s identity. The film stars Sharon Stone, William Baldwin and Tom Berenger.
According to the movie, the tall and narrow sliver building is located at 113 East 38th Street in Manhattan, placing it at 38th Street and Park Avenue. The actual building used in the film is known as Morgan Court, located at 211 Madison Avenue New York, one block west and two blocks south of the fictional address. The building has since become a condominium development. It was built in 1985 and has 32 floors. While the movie made use of the building’s courtyard, the lobby was a Los Angeles film set.
The movie debuted at No. 1 at the box office making $12.1 million in 2,093 theatres. By the second week the box office taking dropped to No. 6. Sliver eventually grossed $36.3 million domestically and $80 million around the world to a total of $116.3 million worldwide.
Sliver (1993)
Directed by: Phillip Noyce
Starring: Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger, Polly Walker, Colleen Camp, Amanda Foreman, Martin Landau, Nina Foch, Anne Betancourt, Nicholas Pryor
Screenplay by: Joe Eszterhas
Production Design by: Paul Sylbert
Cinematography by: Vilmos Zsigmond
Film Editing by: Richard Francis-Bruce, William Hoy, Bert Lovitt
Costume Design by: Deborah Lynn Scott
Set Decoration by: Lisa Fischer
Art Direction by: Peter Landsdown Smith
Music by: Howard Shore
MPAA Rating: R for strong sexuality, and for language and violence.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: May 21, 1993
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