Release Year: 1990 Rating: R Duration: 110 minutes Director: John Schlesinger Producer: Scott Rudin, William Sackheim
synopsis
A modern young couple, unmarried but committed, pool all of their resources in order to purchase and renovate a Victorian home in San Francisco's Pacific Heights. By renting out the lower level, they can just get by. Their tenant turns out to be more than they bargained for, but trying to evict him sparks an ever escalating war they can't afford to lose.
With PACIFIC HEIGHTS, screenwriter Daniel Pyne has shot himself in the foot by destroying a promising premise with two frustratingly idiotic characters. Melanie Griffith and Matthew Modine play a cute (but fatally dumb) couple who buy a decrepit Victorian house in Pacific Heights and sink all of their savings into restoring it. However, the only way they can afford their dream house, which is located in San Francisco's ritziest neighborhood, is to rent out the rooms on the ground floor. A devious con man (Michael Keaton) maneuvers his way into one of the apartments and sets into motion a fiendish plot to ruin their lives, their home, and their credit rating.
