Pacific Heights

Carter's briefcase when Patty is sneaking through his room.

Patty's last name is shown to be "Palmer" on her financial statement seen in Carter's briefcase, but the closing credits list her name as "Patty Parker" When the Watanabe's are explaining to Patty why they are breaking the lease, movers are taking furniture out of the front door of the house.

However, a previous shot of the front of the house showed no moving truck, or any car, out in front.

The policeman quotes an entirely non-factual law to Drake about a tenant having rights just because a tenant physically enters a building, even at the time the movie was made.

No tenant has any legal right to remain on the premises of a single-family or multiple-family dwelling in any state without payment, and furthermore, because of Carter Hayes destructive acts (e.

, releasing the cockroaches and physical damage to the unit), Drake had more than enough good cause to have Carter forcibly evicted, either by the City of San Francisco police or the San Francisco County sheriff.

Wow, what a movie. And get this: Michael Keaton is the villain!

It's very unusual for a conflict between a house-owning couple and a strange tenant to provide the plot for a psychological thriller but in "Pacific Heights", that's exactly what happens. This set-up is initially intriguing but soon takes on a darker complexion as it gradually becomes apparent just how sinister and dangerous the newest occupant of the house really is.

A devious pair of greedy monsters, Drake Goodman and Patty Parker, decide to waste a realtor's time looking at a house they cannot afford. When they tell a friend Dennis (Dorian Harewood) about the $750,000 fixer-upper, he gives them solid advice not to get involved with the money pit which they promptly ignore.

Drake Goodman (Matthew Modine) and his girlfriend Patty Palmer (Melanie Griffith) are stretching their finances to the limit to buy a San Francisco house. They need to rent the two ground floor apartments to cover the mortgage.

John Schlesinger directed this thriller that stars Mathew Modine & Melanie Griffith as Drake Goodman & Patty Palmer, a young couple who buy an old house in the Pacific Heights section of San Francisco. They are trying to find tenants, and at first, Carter Hayes(played by Michael Keaton) seems ideal: seemingly wealthy, well-dressed, and well-spoken.

Sometimes art imitates life and truth is stranger than fiction. I say that because last year four homeless women in Oakland, California squatted in a vacant house and refused to leave.

One of those Premise Thrillers. Here it's about a renter renting from a young couple who bought a building.

I know most people on here won't know who Bentley Little is (this site is catered to film fans, after all, not bookworms), but he is one of my favorite horror writers working today and I can't believe how much this film felt like I was watching one of his novels unfold on the big screen. His novels are usually rooted in something unexplained and supernatural (the biggest difference between his work and this brilliant film), but other than that, the correlation is truly unbelievable.