Sliver (1993) on Netflix
Carly Norris, a book editor, moves into a Manhattan sliver building whose previous tenant, Naomi Singer, fell to her death from the balcony. The neighbors say the two women look alike.
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Plot summary
Carly Norris is a book editor, divorced and in her mid-30s, who moves into 113, an exclusive sliver building in Manhattan. The tenants tell her she looks remarkably like Naomi Singer, who lived in her apartment before her and fell from its balcony to her death. Among the residents she meets are Zeke Hawkins, a designer of video games, Jack Landsford, a novelist, Vida Warren, a model, and Gus Hale, who teaches videography. Carly keeps encountering Zeke, and after she holds a housewarming party the two become lovers. Jack begins following her and warns her that Zeke is sick.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Sliver (1993)
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- Sliver ran into such a battle with the MPAA, which originally gave it an NC-17 rating, that the filmmakers were forced to make extensive reshoots before release - changes drastic enough that the killer's identity had to be changed.
- Stone later said producer Robert Evans pressured her to actually sleep with co-star Baldwin during filming, arguing they would then have chemistry onscreen and that it would save the movie. She refused, and Baldwin later attacked her account on social media by asking if she still had a crush on him.
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Shooting that original volcano finale actually crashed the helicopter being used, and an investigation temporarily suspended the pilot's certificate; the ending was then rewritten because test audiences disliked Carly's turn toward complicity in the killer's crimes.SPOILER
In Sliver's original ending, Zeke Hawkins (William Baldwin) rather than Jack Landsford (Tom Berenger) was revealed as the killer: he marries Carly Norris (Sharon Stone), and on their honeymoon she tells him, mid-flight over a Hawaiian volcano, that she knows what he did.- To avoid an NC-17 rating, director Phillip Noyce said he had to make 110 separate edits to Sliver, all of them aimed at removing shots of male frontal nudity.
- The fictional sliver skyscraper was played by Morgan Court, a real 32-floor building put up in 1985 at 211 Madison Avenue in New York; the crew used the building's courtyard, but the lobby was a Los Angeles film set.
