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| Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: September 28, 1990 |
Starring:
Carl Lumbly, Dorian Harewood, Laurie Metcalf, Luca Bercovici, MAKO, Matthew Modine, Melanie Griffith, Michael Keaton, Nobu McCarthy, Tippi Hedren
Summary:
A couple works hard to renovate its dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately, one of their tenants has plans of his own.
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Pacific Heights is the hot fall thriller Hollywood has been waiting for. A slick, jolting successor to "Jagged Edge," "Fatal Attraction" and "Sea of Love," it beats the odds by inducing us to sympathize with a San Francisco yuppie landlord couple stuck with a tenant from hell. [28 Sept 1990, p.45]
Schlesinger stages the action with smooth assurance, gradually building tension until Hayes goes completely round the bend. The problem lies in Daniel Pyne's script: the relationship between Drake and Patty is half-realised, while Hayes' motivations remain strangely muddled. That said, Keaton is chillingly convincing.
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A movie that tries to do to real
estate what Fatal Attraction did to adultery. It fails - the script isn't
half as convincing or the suspense nearly as taut, but the aim is the
same. [28 Sept 1990]
Pacific Heights wastes our time and the talent of three top actors, Michael Keaton, Melanie Griffith and Matthew Modine. What possibly attracted them to this inconsequential exploitation film about a tenant from hell terrorizing his landlords in an effort to steal their home? We keep waiting for the film to develop some larger meaning or greater purpose. It never does. [29 Sept 1990, p.C2]
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