This listing is for Sliver LaserDisc LD (1993) LV 32722-WS.

Country: USA   

Street Date: 10/11/1993

Publisher: Paramount Home Video

Price: 34.98 USD

UPC: 013023350366

UPC=013023350366

ISBN=0-7921-2948-2

I-S-B-N: 0-7921-2948-2

Category: Thriller

Color: Color

Length: 106 min.

Sides: 2

Chapters: 2

Size: 12"

Picture: Letterboxed

Ratio: 2.35:1

Plastic: Transparent

Cover: Standard  

Sliver is a 1993 American 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 sliver building. Phillip Noyce directed the film, from a screenplay by Joe Eszterhas. 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. When he signed on to direct the film, Phillip Noyce remarked "I liked the script a lot. Or at least, I liked the idea of jumping on the Joe Eszterhas bandwagon."

Carly Norris (Sharon Stone), a book editor and divorcee, moves into the exclusive New York City sliver building "113". She meets other tenants including Zeke (William Baldwin), a video game designer, Jack (Tom Berenger), a novelist, Vida (Polly Walker) a fashion model who moonlights as a call girl and Gus (Keene Curtis), a professor of videography at New York University. They tell Carly that she bears a striking resemblance to the previous tenant of her apartment, Naomi Singer, who fell to her death from her balcony. After running into Zeke numerous times Carly invites him to her housewarming party. Soon after they begin a sexual relationship. Meanwhile Jack starts stalking Carly and warning her about Zeke who he says is "sick". As Jack's behaviour becomes more erratic, Gus and Vida die under suspicious circumstances. Zeke reveals to Carly that he is the owner of 113, which he bought with the inheritance of his wealthy father. As owner of 113, Zeke installed a comprehensive video surveillance system throughout the building, allowing him to spy on all of the tenants of 113 from his own secret surveillance room. Through deduction and, eventually, one of Zeke's secret recordings Carly learns that Jack killed Naomi in a crime passionel. Jack was jealous of Zeke, who had sexual relations with Naomi and a number of other tenants in 113. Finally Jack attacks Carly in her own apartment and she shoots him dead. Angry at Zeke for withholding evidence in Naomi's murder, and jealous of his liaisons with the other tenants, Carly destroys Zeke's surveillance room and tells him to "get a life" before leaving.

LaserDisc (LD) is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium, initially licensed, sold, and marketed as MCA DiscoVision (also known as simply "DiscoVision") in North America in 1978.  Although the format was capable of offering higher-quality video and audio than its consumer rivals, the VHS and Betamax videocassette systems, LaserDisc never managed to gain widespread use in North America, largely due to high costs for the players and video titles themselves and the inability to record TV programming. It also remained a largely obscure format in Europe and Australia. By contrast, the format was much more popular in Japan and in the more affluent regions of Southeast Asia, such as Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia, being the prevalent rental video medium in Hong Kong during the 1990s. Its superior video and audio quality did make it a somewhat popular choice among videophiles and film enthusiasts during its lifespan.

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