SLIVER is based on a novel by Ira Levin (ROSEMARY’S BABY), although the script shares striking similarities with writer Joe Eszterhas's earlier BASIC INSTINCT screenplay. Phillip Noyce directs efficiently, and Polly Walker is striking as a Londoner out of her element in the coke-addled world of upscale Manhattan.

Sliver Heights has everything a girl could want. Panoramic views of the city, a fully functional gym and voyeuristic landlord with a minor oedipal complex and psychotic tendencies. One day, one of the tenants has an accident. First she looks out the window, then she looks the wrong way and finally she looks like pavement pizza. This leave a vacant room, which Carly Norris takes a fancy to. She's a 30 something executive who has never had that much success with men. But, hey, isn't that a perfectly eligible voyeuristic landlord with a minor oedipal complex and psychotic tendencies?