Sliver (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Sliver |
| Original title | Sliver |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Phillip Noyce |
| script | Joe Eszterhas |
| production |
Robert Evans , Joe Eszterhas , Hawk Cook |
| music |
Michael Cretu , Marston Daley , Frank Nardiello , Howard Shore |
| camera | Vilmos Zsigmond |
| cut |
Richard Francis-Bruce , William Hoy |
| occupation | |
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Sliver (alternative title: Sliver - Greed of the eyes ) is an American feature film from 1993 . The plot is based on the 1991 novel Sliver by Ira Levin . The director was Phillip Noyce and the main roles were played by Sharon Stone , William Baldwin and Tom Berenger .
action
The editor Carly Norris pulls in a method known as "Sliver" residential tower in New York district of Manhattan . She soon learns from a professor who lives in the same house that the previous tenant of the apartment died in a fall from the balcony. In the newspaper archive, she finds out that there were more deaths in the house.
At a business lunch, Carly meets the writer Jack Lansford, who lives in the same house. A little later she receives a present from a stranger - a telescope with which she can observe the residents of the surrounding houses.
At a party, Carly meets neighbor Zeke Hawkins, who soon becomes her lover. After spending the night together, he reveals to her that he is the owner of the house. It turns out that he had numerous hidden surveillance cameras installed in the skyscraper and secretly observed the tenants even in the most intimate situations.
Lansford harasses Carly and tries constantly to warn her about Zeke.
More murders happen in the house . Carly suspects the homeowner, but it turns out that the Jack Lansford murders were carried out, which is a departure from the novel.
Reviews
James Berardinelli described the film adaptation on ReelViews , which changed numerous elements of the novel by Ira Levin , as "butcher's work". He criticized the portrayal of Sharon Stone as not being emotionally differentiated, that of William Baldwin as "bland", that of Tom Berenger as "boring". Berardinelli wrote that the film would look like the MTV productions because of the "intrusive" music and the "distracting" editing and would be one of the worst films of 1993.
The lexicon of international film ruled: "Film interested exclusively in the sensational perspective of voyeurism, which suffocates in erotic and criminalistic platitudes and clichés."
Awards
The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
William Baldwin won in 1994 for his role the film award MTV Movie Award , Sharon Stone and the song Can not Help Falling in Love were for the MTV Movie Award nomination.
The film received seven Golden Raspberry nominations in 1994 : William Baldwin, Sharon Stone, Tom Berenger and Colleen Camp for actors, Phillip Noyce for directing, Joe Eszterhas for script and Robert Evans for Worst Picture .
literature
- Ira Levin : Sliver. Roman (Original title: Sliver ). German by Klaus Fröba . One-time special edition. Goldmann, Munich 2002, 253 pages, ISBN 3-442-55286-9
- Gebhard Hölzl , Thomas Lassonczyk: Sharon Stone: With "Basic Instinct" to success . Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-453-06551-4 , pp. 124-134, 230-232
Individual evidence
- ^ Critique by James Berardinelli , ReelViews, 1993.
- ↑ Sliver. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 29, 2019 .
Web links
- Sliver in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sliver at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Sliver at Metacritic (English)
- Sliver in the online film database