Sliver (1993)

Note des utilisateurs:

4.5/10   

Réalisateur:

Phillip Noyce

Writers (WGA):

Ira Levin (novel)
Joe Eszterhas (screenplay)

Release Date:

21 mai 1993 (USA)

Genre:

Romance | Thriller

Accroche:

You like to watch...don't you

Plot:

Sliver Heights has everything a girl could want. Panoramic views of the city, a fully functional gym...

Plot Keywords:

Female Masturbation | Shooting | Pedophile | Shower Scene | Sex Standing Up

Awards:

1 win & 9 nominations

Avis des utilisateurs:

Corny Basic Instinct-clone without brains, subtlety or class

Ensemble

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
Dr. Melvyn Kinder	...	Dr. Palme
Radu Gavor	...	Dmitri
Allison Mackie	...	Naomi Singer
José Rey	...	Det. Corelli
Jim Beaver	...	Det. Ira
Gilbert Rosales	...	Janitor Rodriguez
Mik Scriba	...	Security Guard #1
Steve Carlisle	...	Security Guard #2
Mark Bramhall	...	Waiter
Sid McCoy	...	Mr. Anderson
Sandy Gutman	...	Ted Weisberger (as Alexander Gutman)
Robin Groves	...	Mrs. Ballinger
Matthew Faison	...	Mr. Ballinger
Marnette Patterson	...	Joanie Ballinger
Christine Toy Johnson	...	Reporter #1 (as Christine Toy)
Philip Hoffman	...	Reporter #2
Nicole Orth-Pallavicini	...	Reporter #3
Arthur Eckdahl	...	Waspy Man
Patricia Allison	...	Waspy Woman
James Noah	...	Doorman #2
Eduardo N.T. Andrade	...	Doorman #3
Victor Brandt	...	Det. McCracken
Ryan Cutrona	...	Det. Ennis
Robert Miano	...	Det. Howard
Steve Eastin	...	Det. Phillip
Wendy Cutler	...	Mrs. Colson
Craig Hosking	...	Helicopter Pilot
Cliff Fleming	...	Helicopter Pilot
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Christine Avila	...	Doctor (uncredited)
Rick Collins	...	Weightlifter (uncredited)
Cheryl Hunter	...	Secretary (uncredited)
Leonard Kelly-Young	...	Priest (uncredited)
Phillip Noyce	...	Shaving Man (uncredited)
Nick Taylor	...	Homeless Man (uncredited)
Joe Zazzu	...	Reporter #4 (uncredited)

Réalisé par
Phillip Noyce

Scénaristes (WGA)
Ira Levin		(novel)
Joe Eszterhas		(screenplay)

Produit par
Joe Eszterhas	....	executive producer
Robert Evans	....	producer
Hawk Koch	....	executive producer (as Howard W. Koch Jr.)
William J. MacDonald	....	co-producer
Laura Viederman	....	associate producer

Musique originale
Howard Shore

Image
Vilmos Zsigmond

Montage
Richard Francis-Bruce
William Hoy

Distribution des rôles
Amanda Mackey Johnson		(as Amanda Mackey)
Cathy Sandrich

Création des décors
Paul Sylbert

Direction artistique
Peter Landsdown Smith

Décorateur de plateau
Lisa Fischer

Création des costumes
Deborah Lynn Scott		(as Deborah L. Scott)

Maquillage
Milton Buras	....	hair stylist: New York
Kymbra Callaghan	....	makeup artist: New York
Laura De'Atley	....	body makeup artist
Sharon Ilson	....	makeup artist
Paul LeBlanc	....	hair designer: Sharon Stone (as Paul Le Blanc)
Lydia Milars	....	makeup artist: New York
Janine Rath	....	hair stylist
Tricia Sawyer	....	makeup artist (as Tricia A. Sawyer)
Dan Frye	....	makeup effects lab technician (uncredited)
Elaina P. Schulman	....	second key hair stylist (uncredited)

Directeur de production
Edwin 'Itsi' Atkins	....	unit production manager (as E.C. 'Itsi' Atkins)

Assistant réalisateur
David R. Ellis	....	second unit director
Christopher T. Gerrity	....	first assistant director
John Hockridge	....	first assistant director
Joseph J. Kontra	....	second assistant director
Justin Moritt	....	second second assistant director
Carlos Piñero	....	dga trainee
John G. Scotti	....	second assistant director: second unit
Charles Zalben	....	second assistant director: New York

Art Department
Christopher Amy	....	assistant property master (as Christopher K. Amy)
Cindy Lou Burroughs	....	property person (as Cynthia L. Burroughs)
Robert Camron	....	property person (as Bob Camron)
Danny D. Cappa	....	property person
Jeanette D'Ambrosio-Sylbert	....	assistant: Mr. Sylbert
Stacy Doran	....	property person
Martha Fishkin	....	property person: New York
K.C. Fox	....	additional set decorator
Ron Frazier	....	propmaker foreperson
Antoinette J. Gordon	....	set designer
Bruce Lee Gross	....	leadperson: New York
Denise Heinrich	....	art department coordinator
Bill Iiams	....	construction coordinator
Marion Kolsby	....	set designer: New York
Walter P. Martishius	....	set designer
William S. Maxwell III	....	lead person
Elizabeth Meyerson	....	art department coordinator: New York
Margaret Milchorena	....	property person
David J. Negron Jr.	....	illustrator
Erik L. Nelson	....	property master
Greg Nestor	....	property person
Christopher Nowak	....	art director: New York
Roderick Nunnally	....	paint foreperson (as Roderick K. Nunnally)
Elaine O'Donnell	....	assistant set decorator: New York
Mark Peltzer	....	property master: New York
Richard Peters	....	construction foreperson
James J. Pickering	....	property person (as Jimmy Pickering)
Leslie A. Pope	....	set decorator: New York
Mark Rasmussen	....	propmaker foreperson
Anthony Samuel Saso	....	labor foreperson (as Tony Saso)
John A. Scott III	....	property person
Ed Williams	....	propmaker foreperson
Patricia Woodbridge	....	assistant art director: New York (as Pat Woodbridge)
Todd Young	....	propmaker foreperson (as Todd A. Young)
Mike Brooks	....	propmaker (uncredited)
Lloyd A. Buswell	....	construction foreman (uncredited)
Christopher Nelson	....	set dresser (uncredited)
Denis Zack	....	set dresser (uncredited)
D.A. Zingelewicz	....	paint foreman (uncredited)

Technicien du son
Carmen Baker	....	first assistant sound editor (as Carmen Hocson)
Bob Baron	....	adr mixer
Cindy Bassman	....	apprentice sound editor
Pamela Bentkowski	....	foley editor (as Pam Bentkowski)
Thomas Brandau	....	sound mixer: second unit
Richard Burton	....	dialogue editor
Tim Chau	....	sound designer
Tim Chau	....	supervising sound editor
Greg Curda	....	foley mixer
Christine Danelski	....	foley editor
Ken Dufva	....	foley artist
John P. Fasal	....	special sound effects designer (as John Paul Fasal)
David Lee Fein	....	foley artist
Sukey Fontelieu	....	supervising foley editor
Richard C. Franklin	....	sound designer (as Rick Franklin)
Richard C. Franklin	....	supervising sound editor (as Rick Franklin)
Albert Gasser	....	sound effects editor
Eric Gotthelf	....	foley mixer
Frank Howard	....	dialogue editor
Joseph A. Ippolito	....	dialogue editor
Doug Jackson	....	sound effects editor (as Douglas Jackson)
Stephen Janisz	....	adr editor
Chris Jargo	....	supervising adr editor (as J. Christopher Jargo)
Nils C. Jensen	....	dialogue editor
David Kern	....	sound effects editor
Rick Kline	....	sound re-recording mixer
Nicholas Vincent Korda	....	adr editor (as Nick Korda)
Gary Krivacek	....	sound effects editor
Donald J. Malouf	....	supervising dialogue editor (as Don Malouf)
Steve Mann	....	foley editor
Steve Mann	....	sound editor
Joseph A. Mayer	....	adr editor (as Joe Mayer)
Gary Mundheim	....	sound effects editor
Tom Nelson	....	sound mixer
Bob O'Brien	....	foley editor
Kevin O'Connell	....	sound re-recording mixer
Donald Ortiz	....	assistant sound editor
Phillip W. Palmer	....	utility sound
Michele Perrone	....	adr editor
Kim Secrist	....	foley editor
Jerome R. Vitucci	....	boom operator
David Wolowic	....	assistant sound editor
Linda Yeaney	....	assistant sound editor
Paul Timothy Carden	....	adr supervisor (uncredited)
Paul Timothy Carden	....	dialogue supervisor (uncredited)
Thierry J. Couturier	....	sound editor (uncredited)
Thomas P. McNamara	....	assistant sound editor (uncredited)
Robert Morrisey	....	assistant sound editor (uncredited)
Paul O'Bryan	....	assistant sound editor (uncredited)

Effets spéciaux
Eric Allard	....	special effects makeup
Kenneth C. Clark	....	special effects (as Ken Clark)
Gene Grigg	....	special effects coordinator
John Ottesen	....	special effects: New York (as John M. Ottesen)
Ron Ottesen	....	special effects: New York (as Ronald R. Ottesen Jr.)
Darrell Pritchett	....	special effects coordinator
Robert Cole	....	special effects (uncredited)
Steve Riley	....	special effects technician (uncredited)

Visual Effects
Christopher Duddy	....	Vista Vision plate photography

Cascadeur
Steve Boyum	....	stunt coordinator
Bud Davis	....	stunt coordinator
Annie Ellis	....	stunts
David R. Ellis	....	stunt coordinator (as David Ellis)
Jon H. Epstein	....	stunts (as Jon Epstein)
Donna Keegan	....	stunts
Spiro Razatos	....	stunts
Ronnie Rondell Jr.	....	stunt coordinator (as Ronnie Rondell)
Jennifer Watson-Johnston	....	stunts
Cheryl Wheeler-Dixon	....	stunts
Kenny Bates	....	stunts (uncredited)
Nick Brett	....	utility stunts (uncredited)
Michael Haynes	....	stunts (uncredited)
Merritt Yohnka	....	stunts (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Roy Bean	....	video operator
Mike Benson	....	additional photographer (as Michael A. Benson)
Dick Deats	....	first company grip (as Richard Deats)
Jerry DeBlau	....	chief lighting technician: New York
Ray De La Motte	....	camera operator (as Ray J. de la Motte)
Brad Edmiston	....	first assistant camera
Cary Fisher	....	camera operator: New York
Ken Fisher	....	Steadicam assistant (as Ken W. Fisher)
Antonio V. Garrido	....	dolly grip (as Antonio Garrido)
Todd M. Gavin	....	second assistant camera: second unit (as Todd Gavin)
Steve Irwin	....	video operator
Ed Jackson	....	second company grip (as Edward A. Jackson)
Robert Jason	....	chief lighting technician
László Kovács	....	additional photographer (as Laszlo Kovacs)
Bruce Manning	....	first assistant camera: second unit
Sal Martorano	....	gaffer: second unit (as Salvatore Martorano Jr.)
Michael E. Matteson	....	second company grip (as Michael Matteson)
Larry McConkey	....	Steadicam operator
Jeffrey W. Petersen	....	assistant chief lighting technician (as Jeffrey Petersen)
Robert T. Prate	....	first company grip: New York (as Robert Prate)
Tom Prate	....	first company grip: New York
Paul Prince	....	second assistant camera (as Paul Rene Prince)
Richard Scarpone	....	video assist operator
Tom Schurke	....	video operator (as Thomas L. Schurke)
Andrew D. Schwartz	....	still photographer: New York (as Andy Schwartz)
Frederick Talmage	....	video operator (as Rick Talmage)
Suzanne Tenner	....	still photographer
Francis X. Valdez III	....	assistant chief lighting technician
Elizabeth Ziegler	....	Steadicam operator
Eric Anderson	....	camera operator: video camera (uncredited)
Kenneth Estes	....	video playback: re-shoots (uncredited)
Lisa Guerriero	....	second assistant camera: second unit (uncredited)
Kevin Haggerty	....	first assistant camera (uncredited)
Frank R. Jimenez Jr.	....	lamp operator (uncredited)
Renee Kayon	....	electrician (uncredited)
Gábor Kövér	....	camera operator: "a" camera, New York (uncredited)
Christopher J. Lama	....	electrician (uncredited)
Gary Muller	....	first assistant camera: New York (uncredited)

Animation Department
Brian Callier	....	animations: Macintosh

Casting Department
Barbara Harris	....	voice casting
Lousie Landham	....	extras casting assistant: New York
Karen Miller	....	casting associate (as Karen Lynn Miller)
Dan Parada	....	extras casting
Elizabeth Shea	....	extras casting assistant: New York
Bernie Styles	....	extras casting

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Marsha Bozeman	....	costumer (as Marsha Lynn Bozeman)
David Le Vey	....	assistant costume designer
George L. Little	....	costume supervisor
Carlane Passman	....	costume supervisor
Don Vargas	....	costumer
Fran Vega-Buck	....	costumer (as Francisca Vega-Buck)
Mira Zavidowsky	....	costumer

Editorial Department
Bill Babington	....	apprentice film editor
Sue Blainey	....	assistant film editor
Jeff Canavan	....	assistant film editor (as Jeff W. Canavan)
Lisa M. Citron	....	additional film editor (as Lisa Citron)
Patricia A. Galvin	....	first assistant film editor (as Patty Galvin)
Craig Hayes	....	assistant film editor
Phil Hetos	....	color timer (as Philip Hetos)
Robert C. Lusted	....	first assistant film editor (as Robert Charles Lusted)
Lindsay Mofford	....	assistant film editor
Martha Pike	....	assistant film editor
Theresa Repola Mohammed	....	negative cutter
Jim Sevin	....	on-line editor (as James L. Sevin)
Albert Coleman	....	assistant editor (uncredited)
David Reale	....	assistant film editor (uncredited)

Music Department
Bunny Andrews	....	music editor
Bob Bornstein	....	music preparation
Sandy DeCrescent	....	orchestra contractor (as Sandy De Crescent)
Christopher Kennedy	....	music editor
John Richards	....	music scoring mixer
Timothy R. Sexton	....	music supervisor (as Tim Sexton)
Howard Shore	....	conductor
Howard Shore	....	orchestrator
Rick Winquest	....	music scoring mixer (uncredited)

Transportation Department
Joseph Fanning	....	transportation coordinator: New York
Michael Fennell	....	transportation captain: New York (as Michael D. Fennel)
Anthony C. Steere	....	transportation captain
James Thornsberry	....	transportation coordinator (as James W. Thornsberry)
Bobby Marsh	....	driver (uncredited)

Divers
Adell Aldrich	....	script supervisor
Lyda Blank	....	assistant location manager: New York
Cindy Caldwell-Scotti	....	assistant production coordinator
Ronald L. Carr	....	location manager
Vartan Chakarian	....	craft service (as Vartan S. Chakirian)
Lisa Cloud	....	physical trainer: Ms. Stone
Jamie Cohen	....	production assistant
Robert Dawson	....	title designer
John DeSimone	....	production secretary: New York (as John De Simone)
Patricia Anne Doherty	....	location manager: New York
John Dombrow	....	production assistant
John Downer	....	production assistant
Marie Elder	....	assistant production accountant
Joan Flannery	....	post-production accountant
Dori Golod	....	production assistant: New York
Germaine Goodrich	....	assistant: Mr. Noyce
Alonzo Greer	....	production assistant
Kristine Harlan	....	assistant: Ms. Stone
Michelle L. Keiser	....	production assistant: New York (as Shelly L. Keiser)
Katherine Kennedy	....	production office coordinator: New York (as Katherine A. Kennedy)
Josh Kline	....	production assistant
Peter Eric Kozak	....	production assistant
David B. Leener	....	production associate
H. Skye Leslie	....	video footage coordinator (as Heather Leslie Sky)
Robert Mazaraki	....	production assistant
Sean McCarron	....	production associate
Victoria Brown McCready	....	production assistant (as Victoria Brown)
Frank Moran	....	physical trainer: Mr. Baldwin
Stuart Neumann	....	location manager (as Stuart Newmann)
Peter J. Novak	....	assistant location manager
Nora O'Brien	....	assistant: Mr. Evans
Lisa J. Olin	....	assistant: Mr. Koch Jr.
Scott Peters	....	production assistant: New York
Burt Poehlman	....	production assistant (as Burton E. Poehlman)
Antonia Proscia	....	assistant accountant
Liz Radley	....	video computer supervisor
John Rash	....	accounting assistant
Cornelia 'Nini' Rogan	....	script supervisor: New York
Reid Rosefelt	....	unit publicist: New York
Jane E. Russell	....	unit publicist
Paul Sauer	....	assistant: Mr. McDonald
Debbie Schwab	....	production coordinator
David Tain	....	production assistant: New York
Joseph A. Unsinn	....	video technical supervisor (as Joseph A. Unsinn III)
Jason Venokur	....	production assistant
Brian Wensel	....	production accountant
Michael Williams	....	video footage coordinator
Denise Blasor	....	voice replacement artist (uncredited)
Cliff Fleming	....	helicopter pilot (uncredited)
Craig Hosking	....	helicopter pilot (uncredited)
Tom Lent	....	adr voice (uncredited)
Joe Lotito	....	production assistant: second unit (uncredited)
John Mingalone	....	production assistant (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Paramount Pictures

Distributors

• Paramount Pictures (1993) (USA) (theatrical)
• American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (1996) (USA) (TV) (broadcast premiere)
• Argentina Video Home (1994) (Argentina) (VHS)
• Argentina Video Home (2000) (Argentina) (DVD)
• CIC-Taft Home Video
• Hollydan Works (1998) (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) (DVD)
• Lucernafilm - Alfa (1993) (Czech Republic) (theatrical)
• United International Pictures (UIP) (1993) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• United International Pictures (UIP)
• United International Pictures (UIP) (1993) (Sweden) (theatrical)

Other Companies

• Movie Movers  cast trailers
• Virgin Records  soundtrack

Autre(s) titre(s) :

Sliver (France) [fr]

Durée:

108 min

Pays:

USA

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Couleur

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Son:

Dolby SR

Classification:

Italy:VM14 | USA:Unrated (unrated DVD version) | Canada:18A (Ontario) (re-rating) (2006) | Canada:R (Manitoba/Nova Scotia) (also unrated version) | Canada:R (Ontario) (original rating) | Iceland:14 (original rating) | Iceland:16 (video rating) | Singapore:R21 | Philippines:R-18 (re-rating) | Philippines:X (original rating) | Peru:18 | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA (cable rating) | Australia:R (original rating) | Canada:16+ (Quebec) | Chile:18 | Finland:K-16 | France:-12 | Germany:16 | Netherlands:16 | Portugal:M/18 | South Korea:18 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Columbia/Sunset Gower Studios - 1438 N. Gower Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Anecdotes:

During filming, a crew was sent to Hawaii to film an active volcano for the opening credits. During the flyover, the volcano erupted, and the helicopter carrying the crew crashed. No one was killed, but all film was lost. The opening credit scene is referenced in the film by the crystal volcano in Zeke's Room.

Goofs:

Miscellaneous: When crossing the street, a cab stops, honks, and driver says "why are you walking here?" as a nod to "Midnight Cowboy."

Guillemet:

Carly Norris: You like to watch, watch this!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Simpsons: Burns' Heir (#5.18)" (1994)

Soundtrack:

Slid

Corny Basic Instinct-clone without brains, subtlety or class

Sliver is the movie you'd expect a high-school media student to make if you thrust a camera into his hands and commanded 'make me another Basic Instinct'. It's all sex before plot, cinematography before composition, style before substance. It's Basic Instinct without the intrigue, tension, psychological subtext or Hitchcockian twist (which, to be fair, really just leaves the sex). Sharon Stone revisits the role of blonde centrepiece, although this time she's the slightly-reluctant and unknowning victim rather than the carnivorous bi-nympho of BI. Sadly, this does not work in the least, and it shows one of the key distinctions between a good actress - as Stone is - and great actresses like Jodie Foster: the ability to recognise and choose a role. Stone obviously thought this was another sex-and-death ride to box-office success, and it was little more than a stinker.

That is not to say that Sliver doesn't occasionally grab your attention, however it does so in a base, superficial way. The sex scenes are numerous, stylistic, moderately explicit and, to be fair, not as unrealistic as your usual cinematic couplings. Stone's character Carly is more sexually repressed than Catherine Tramell in Basic Instinct, but that doesn't stop her from masturbating in the bath or being readily seduced by Baldwin's Zeke. Lurking on the fringes is Tom Berenger's character Jack, who's neither fully explained or explored and just provides a counterpoint for the interplay between Stone and Baldwin. The major theme here is voyerism - Baldwin apparently has all the Sliver apartments wired for vision so he can spy on the lives of the residents, whether mundane singles, drug-takers or child-molesting fathers. Baldwin's fascination is not lewd, sexual or perverse, he just seems to revel in the power of information, of *knowing* who people are and what they do behind closed doors (perhaps Noyce and Esterhaz are taking a back-handed swipe at the audience themselves).

All this is lovely, but it doesn't change one thing - Sliver ultimately becomes boring and tame. The interest in the sex peters out midway through the movie, the TV wall-screens and Zeke's hi-tech gadgetry are all interesting but not enough to sustain the movie. We're given snippets of the lives of others in the building, but not enough to fatten the narrative, while the main characters themselves are neither interesting, likeable or 'deep' enough to hold our interest. And the script also sucks, feeling as though creative muscles were strained in order to compensate for an anemic plot. Sliver is a ham-fisted Basic Instinct clone that is more mirrors than Machievelli and should be avoided unless you want to see Sharon Stone naked.