Pacific Heights (film)

Pacific Heights is a 1990 psychological thriller film directed by John Schlesinger, written by Daniel Pyne, and starring Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, and Michael Keaton. Griffiths reallife mother Tippi Hedren has a cameo as a rich older woman who is conned by Keatons character. The original music score was composed by Hans Zimmer. The films tagline is It seemed like the perfect house. He seemed like the perfect tenant. Until they asked him to leave.

The scene shifts to San Francisco, where an unmarried couple, Drake Goodman Modine and Patty Palmer Griffith purchase an expensive 19thcentury polychrome house in the exclusive Pacific Heights neighborhood. They rent one of the buildings two firstfloor apartments to the Watanabes, a kindly Japanese couple who have no children. Not long after, Hayes visits to view the remaining vacant unit and immediately expresses a desire to move in. Hayes drives an expensive Porsche and carries large amounts of cash on his person, but is reluctant to undergo a credit check. He convinces Drake to waive the credit check in exchange for a list of personal references and an upfront payment of the first six months rent, to be paid by wire transfer.Before any of this money is paid, however, Hayes arrives unannounced one morning and shuts himself into the apartment. As days pass, Drake and Patty grow increasingly impatient when Hayes wire transfer fails to materialize. From inside the apartment, sounds of loud hammering and drilling are heard at all hours of the day and night, however the door is seldom answered. When Drake finally makes an attempt to enter Hayes apartment, he finds that the locks have been changed. Drake attempts to put an end to the constant noise and drive out Hayes by cutting the electricity and heat to the apartment, but Hayes summons the police, who side with Hayes and warn Drake that his actions are unlawful and could result in a civil suit. ........

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