The night before the wedding, Don John's servant Borachio arranges a steamy liaison with Hero's gentlewoman Margaret at Hero's chamber window. In the midst of all of this good-natured scheming, Don John has been searching for ways to stop the marriage between Claudio and Hero. Each of them believes the story they hear about the other. Hero and her gentlewoman Ursula play the same trick upon Beatrice. Needing something to pass the time until the wedding, Don Pedro decides to arrange a similar fate for Beatrice and Benedick, whose animosity for each other is clear.ĭon Pedro, Leonato, and Claudio stage a conversation containing a false account of how much Beatrice loves Benedick, all the while knowing Benedick to be hiding within earshot. An unrepentant Don John attempts to foil it, but unsuccessfully – the match is made.
Don Pedro, learning of his friend's feelings, decides to act on his behalf and arranges the match at a party. Claudio has been thinking of Leonato's beautiful daughter Hero ( Kate Beckinsale) since before he went to war, and returns to find her as attractive as ever. Also present are Benedick's friend Claudio ( Robert Sean Leonard), a young count and Don John who, despite his rebellion, has apparently reconciled with his brother. Accompanying Don Pedro is the witty Benedick ( Kenneth Branagh), former lover of Leonato's equally sharp-tongued niece, Beatrice ( Emma Thompson). And for Sherry Lansing, the recently installed chairman and CEO of Paramount who had made Sliver her pet project, the film was destined either to give her studio an early lead in the summer box office race, or drop it back into the yearlong slump that preceded Indecent Proposal.Having just crushed an uprising by his half-brother, Don John ( Keanu Reeves), Don Pedro of Aragon ( Denzel Washington) and his noblemen visit their friend Leonato ( Richard Briers) in Messina. For her costar, William Baldwin, who plays her young seducer, Sliver represented a chance to rival big brother Alec as the family’s hottest star. As a Manhattan book editor seduced into a world of voyeurism and murder, neo-femme fatale Sharon Stone was eager to prove herself worthy of the hype that has swirled around her since she showed the world her skirt’s deepest secrets in last year’s Basic Instinct. The stakes were just as high for the other creative principals involved. Over the last year, he had gambled his comeback from personal and professional ruin on Sliver - the very expensive $33 million and rising), very erotic thriller that, only two months before its May 21 opening, appeared to be in serious trouble. The 62-year-old producer had plenty of cause to yowl.
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