Pacific Heights (1990)

Directed by

John Schlesinger

Genre

thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

R

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 423 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A couple in San Francisco buys a Victorian house and rents an apartment inside it to a stranger. The tenant turns out to be a dangerous psychopath who terrorizes them.

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What happens

Pacific Heights is a 1990 American psychological horror thriller film directed by John Schlesinger, written by Daniel Pyne, and starring Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, and Michael Keaton. Its plot follows a San Francisco couple who restore a Victorian home in Pacific Heights and unwittingly rent a studio apartment inside it to a psychopath. Pacific Heights was released by 20th Century Fox in the United States on September 28, 1990. The film received mixed reviews from critics, but was a box-office success, grossing $55 million worldwide against an $18 million budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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