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Thanks for the memories!

Sorry, this movie sucks

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

It's a rare event when I give up on a movie before it is halfway through. Usually I will suffer through a fairly bad movie to see if any redeeming entertainment surfaces. I'd heard "Pacific Heights" was a good movie, but the premise was so absurd I turned it off after about 30 minutes. The notion that a landlord would hand over a signed copy of a lease to a tenant before having received the security deposit and first month's rent was ridiculous (which was not in fact depicted in the movie but required for all subsequent events) , but in principle I could suspend disbelief and accept that some inexperienced landlords might be such complete idiots. However, the idea that the San Francisco Police would side with the illegal "tenant" rather than with the "landlord," when the former had never paid any rent or security deposit--and changed the door locks--could only have been written by someone who has no concept of landlord-tenant relations in America. Not only would the SFPD have immediately evicted the interloper, they would have arrested and jailed him for trespassing on the landlord's property. The scene of the police telling the landlord he should get a lawyer was especially ludicrous; the only person that would have needed a lawyer was the pretend "tenant." I don't care how skillfully the direction was after that or how suspenseful the movie would becaoe; because it was clear from that moment on the movie would be a right-wing fantasy about the potential danger of "tenants' rights." The reality is that the justice system totally supports landlords against tenants who, for whatever reason, have not paid their rent. Don't waste your time on propaganda that implies otherwise.

This movie was so not what I had been led to believe it was. I'd first seen a clip of the movie on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments and thought it looked like an old school thriller in the vein of Fatal Attraction, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, Sleeping With The Enemy etc. and of course I'm a huge fan of anything Michael Keaton does, who coincidentally is the easily the best part of the movie. Instead it turns out to be a very boring and bland thriller for estate agents, and I found myself falling alsep at least twice whenever Keaton wasn't on screen. Matthew Modine and Melanie Griffith are completely unbelievable and sans-chemistry as the main couple and in my opinion, Modine overacts to the point where it becomes annoying.Keaton is the saving grace.6/10

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. Michael Keaton stars as a psycho well this must be great right? And honestly it is for the most part and although they could have done a way better casting Melanie Griffith and Matthew Modine made a pretty good job also the theme song of the film was pretty creepy alongside the performance of Keaton. Unfortunately the films has problems mostly the ending was kinda disappointing and why go after of someone when he has simply moved on? for what? to expand the plot? I understand what they were going for but i'm sure they could do a much better job right? In the end this is a must see for people who loved Keaton's Batman or just him as an actor 8/10.

This is a thriller. It isn't the best thriller of all time, though there are thrills. If you need lots of thrills, perhaps this isn't your movie. There are other things at work though, things other than thrills. There's anger. This movie will anger you. Infuriate you. It did me. The suffering of Melanie Griffith and Matthew Modine at the hands of Michael Keaton is infuriating, in as much as they cannot do anything about it. Keaton plays a bad man: Carter Hayes. He rents a room in a gorgeous Victorian house in San Francisco's - you guessed it - Pacific Heights neighborhood. Drake Goodman and Patty Palmer - Modine and Griffith, respectively - are living in sin, and renting out the room to Hayes. But Hayes never pays the rent and never leaves. It gets worse from there. It's kind of a cautionary tale for Renters. Most reviewers have called out Griffith and Modine's characters as being yuppies - I just see them as a normal middle-class couple. Not much yuppie-ish about them. Maybe I don't really know what a yuppie is. Doesn't seem generous to call them yuppies, though. And here, they are victims. I like Michael Keaton, though he's not on screen all that much, really. There's some convoluted back story to his character, though it's hard to understand why he's really as bad as he is. No matter. Michael Keaton is the best part of this movie. Matthew Modine is okay. He's kind of a chump. You kind of get the feeling like he partially deserves what is happening to him. Partially. And then there's Melanie Griffith. She's okay in it, too. She's the heart of the movie, really. The movie doesn't really suggest anything about who the characters really are or why they make the choices that they do. The movie is really all about the situation that they are in - and as I said, the situation is a bad one. It may be that the movie is trying to say something about the rights of property owners in this country, or the lack-thereof. But it doesn't explore that enough. Overall, it's a good little movie, and I recommend watching it, especially if you like Keaton. I like Keaton. I'm glad I watched.