Pacific Heights
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.
- Director: John Schlesinger
- Genre:Crime / Drama / Thriller
- Runtime:104 minutes
Cast
Melanie Griffith: Patty Palmer
Matthew Modine : Drake Goodman
Michael Keaton : Carter Hayes
Mako : Toshio Watanabe
Nobu McCarthy : Mira Watanabe
Mac, the two fisted savy cop finds that he’s being saddled with a new partner, a known burn out, to work with him on a new and difficult case. The new partner is, Ellis, an amazing detective, one who puts Sherlock Holmes to shame with his lightning fast deductions. Ellis has a couple of problems. He keeps assuming the personalities of entire casts of Television shows. This can be a problem when people begin shootThe film begins with Carter Hayes (Michael Keaton) lying in bed with a woman (Beverly D’Angelo), only to be quickly jostled out of bed and beaten up by some hired thugs who tell him to leave town or face worse consequences.
The story then moves to an unmarried couple, Patty Palmer (Melanie Griffith) and Drake Goodman (Matthew Modine) buying a large $750,000+ polychrome house in the exclusive San Francisco neighborhood of Pacific Heights, where they renovate it and plan to rent the two apartments on the first floor to cover most of the monthly mortgage.
Things seem rosy until they meet Carter Hayes who has all the trappings of being a good tenant. In reality, Hayes is a con artist who does not pay either the rent or the security deposit, and changes the locks on all the doors. In short order, Hayes causes the Goodmans all sorts of trouble through scare tactics, verbal baiting and turning his own apartment into a dark cockroach-infested den. It is all part of Hayes’ elaborate scheme to use the California tenant laws against the Goodmans to obtain the property cheaply. The constant stress causes Patty to have a miscarriage. Drake assaults Hayes, who then vanishes almost without a trace after having stolen Drake’s identity.
While Goodman lies in bed recovering from gun shot wounds inflicted by Hayes (who was not incriminated due to Drake disobeying a restraining order), Patty becomes determined to have her revenge. She searches what remains of the apartment and is able to track Hayes down to his new con game involving a wealthy widow (Hedren).
Patty poses as Hayes’ wife in order to get into his hotel room and charge expensive room service on his credit cards and then has Drake call in to have them declared stolen. When Hayes returns, he is arrested and forced to charm his way out of jail. Hayes quickly makes it back to the apartment and a fight erupts between Patty and him, resulting in Hayes’ demise.ing at them. Read more
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