Sliver is a 1993 American erotic thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce from a screenplay by Joe Eszterhas, and starring Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, and Tom Berenger. Based on Ira Levin's 1991 novel, the film is about the mysterious occurrences in a privately owned New York high-rise sliver building. 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 which necessitated changing the killer's identity. The film was released theatrically on May 21, 1993, by Paramount Pictures.