A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.

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Pacific Heights (1990)

They were the perfect couple, buying the perfect house. Until a perfect stranger moved into their lives.

★ 6.3/10 September 28, 1990 102 min

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Director: John Schlesinger  ·  Writer: Daniel Pyne

A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.

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Melanie Griffith Melanie Griffith Patty Palmer Matthew Modine Matthew Modine Drake Goodman Michael Keaton Michael Keaton Carter Hayes Mako Mako Toshio Watanabe Nobu McCarthy Nobu McCarthy Mira Watanabe Laurie Metcalf Laurie Metcalf Stephanie MacDonald Carl Lumbly Carl Lumbly Lieutenant Lou Baker Dorian Harewood Dorian Harewood Dennis Luca Bercovici Luca Bercovici Greg Tippi Hedren Tippi Hedren Florence Peters Sheila McCarthy Sheila McCarthy Liz Hamilton Guy Boyd Guy Boyd Warning Cop

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John Chard
John Chard November 15, 2014
★ 6.5/10

Pacific Heights – Low Human. Pacific Heights is directed by John Schlesinger and written by Daniel Pyne. It stars Michael Keaton, Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, Laurie Metcalf and Mako. Music is by Hans Zimmer and cinematography by Amir M. Mokri. Young couple Patty and Drake plough all their resources into buying a large house in the affluent Pacific Heights area of San Francisco. With two apartments to rent they think their numbers have come in when they manage to find tenants for both. But one man, the mysterious Carter Hayes (Keaton), soon proves to be anything but the perfect tenant… There are twin terrors at work here, one is the tenant from hell, the other is the laws that protect him as he manipulates the system to its very stupid core. The makers do a very good job of making the film unsettling throughout, the ghastly menace who invades someone’s home and holds …