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	Pacific Heights, San Francisco, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pacific Heights is an affluent neighborhood of San Francisco, California, on the north side of the city.
		Pacific Heights is located in one of the most scenic and park-like settings in Northern California, offering panoramic views of the Golden Gate Bridge, the San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz and the Presidio.
		The oldest building in Pacific Heights, located at 2475 Pacific Avenue, was built in 1853, though the majority of the neighborhood was built after the 1906 earthquake.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pacific_Heights,_San_Francisco,_California (795 words)

	Pacific Heights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pacific Heights, San Francisco, California – a neighborhood of San Francisco, California.
		Pacific Heights (1990 film) – a movie starring Michael Keaton.
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pacific_Heights (91 words)

	Movie Database - tvguide.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In both films, basically bland yuppie couples are driven to murderous rage by sociopathic barbarians at the gates of their castles.
		PACIFIC HEIGHTS' basic plot fits easily in a nutshell: After buying a multi-unit house they can't afford, Patty Palmer (Melanie Griffith) and Drake Goodman (Matthew Modine) are toyed with and tormented by tenant-from-hell Carter Hayes (Michael Keaton), a man of many aliases who has made a career out of pillaging real-estate properties for profit.
		As the film opens, Hayes and a blonde woman (Beverly D'Angelo) are wrapped in each others arms, but their lovemaking is interrupted by the appearance of Hayes' latest victims, two angry rednecks who pound a passive Hayes to a bloody pulp.
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=34214 (844 words)

	Knitting Circle John Schlesinger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It was the huge success of the film Marathon Man, (1976), that allowed him to keep some of his international reputation in tact.
		At the end of 2001 he suffered a stroke from which he did not fully recover, and his ability to speak was affected.
		Pacific Heights, 1990, as film director, and with a cameo film acting role as a man in an elevator.
	myweb.lsbu.ac.uk /~stafflag/johnschlesinger.html (2048 words)

	DVD Empire - Item - Pacific Heights / DVD-Video
		And John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy) directs, lifting Pacific Heights to unsettling heights of palpable suspense.
		Pacific Heights is a suspenseful film, and it has an aspect of real life.
		The film is very enjoyable and I recommend seeing and buying it.I won't really say what the film does because it will go away, but you would like this film.
	www.dvdempire.com /Exec/v4_item.asp?userid=00000999281945&item_id=8987 (194 words)

	FILM COLLECTION
		Films influence and are influenced by a pervasive force for social change: the law.
		I know that these films serve as a catalyst for our students to properly observe the historical phenomenon that each film portrays and engage in further research and study using traditional sources of legal and social history.
		This film exposes the subtleties of Southern prejudice in the context of a Rosa Parks-like character.
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/lsf/mersky22.htm (3776 words)

	deseretnews.com - Movie review: Pacific Heights \| Deseret Morning News Web edition
		On the surface, "Pacific Heights" is a traditional genre film, a psychological thriller about a yuppie couple renting an apartment to a dangerous scam-artist who terrorizes them.
		But "Pacific Heights" never cheats with the Keaton character, allowing him to be fleshed out and explaining his actions in a most satisfactory way.
		It is rated R for violence, profanity and, in the film's opening scene, sex and nudity.
	deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,1381,00.html (534 words)

	Amazon.com: Pacific Heights (1990) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		I'd rate Pacific Heights as a full five-stars were it not for the less than inspired writing.
		The biggest problem in Pacific Heights involves the manner in which Michael Keaton (who drives a fl Porsche 911 in the movie) cons and forces his way into the apartment that otherwise would have gone to the fl detective.
		PACIFIC HEIGHTS is one of the best thrillers, great for a Saturday night stay-in or for an introduction into where thrillers got really smart again since the days of PSYCHO and WAIT UNTIL DARK.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0790741423?v=glance (2375 words)

	AudioRevolution.com DVD Review of Pacific Heights
		PACIFIC HEIGHTS is an attempt at an urban thriller based on an unusual threat -- the loss of a house -- and it almost works, due to Melanie Griffith and the powerful, eerie performance of Michael Keaton.
		PACIFIC HEIGHTS was called the ultimate yuppie nightmare, because it centers on a couple who are in their early thirties, live in a city -- San Francisco -- and have ambitions, and because the film centers on property ownership, which is classically a yuppie issue.
		Patty and Drake, living together but not married (which is emphasized to no detectable point), overextend themselves in their purchase of a Victorian house in San Francisco's Pacific Heights area.
	www.avrev.com /dvd/revs/pacificheights.shtml (1096 words)

	Laramie Movie Scope: Pacific Heights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		October 3, 1990 -- ``Pacific Heights'' is a stark, psychological thriller, pitting a sociopathic tenant, chillingly portrayed by Michael Keaton, against some landlords.
		The film comes down to a battle of wits and wills between Keaton, who is trying to fleece the landlords out of their own property, and Melanie Griffith, one of the landlords.
		The tension builds throughout the film right up to the climax primarily because of the controlled fury of Keaton, who does a brilliant job of not showing too much anger until the very end of the film.
	www.lariat.org /AtTheMovies/old/pachight.html (297 words)

	Pacific Heights
		Screenwriter Daniel Pyne got the idea for "Pacific Heights" from his own personal experiences in tenant-landlord relations, saying, "I had to evict somebody from a three-flat building.
		'Pacific Heights' is about what would have happened to me had I not been able to afford the [eviction proceeding] payments, if I had a psychopathic scam artist as a tenant similar to the character played by Michael Keaton in the film..."
		Filmed in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California, and at the Culver Studios.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/pacific_heights/about.php (537 words)

	Pacific Heights review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		"Pacific Heights" is a film that proves the adage "A man's home is his castle" -- even if the man is a psychotic renter and the home isn't his own.
		They are as bland as the film eventually becomes.
		Although it starts out with an interesting premise, and a few of the scenes will make viewers jump, "Pacific Heights" just isn't as thrilling as it intends to be.
	home.earthlink.net /~lncook/Reviews/Pacific.htm (408 words)

	5/13/04: Not Even Nominated Part Eleven
		Ritt's films were marked by their unusually sparse scores (The Outrage, Hombre, Norma Rae), and even his two previous collaborations with John Williams, Pete 'n' Tillie and Conrack, had atypically brief scores from the composer.
		Though the film was a stylish failure, JOE VS. THE VOLCANO featured a typically elegant and delightful score from George Delerue, including an original song, "Marooned Without You," with lyrics by the film's writer-director John Patrick Shanley.
		Film music fans were predictably outraged when Jerry Goldsmith was passed over for the troubled Chinatown sequel, THE TWO JAKES, and Van Dyke Parks' score was an awkward fit, though the composer had a colorful cameo as an attorney.
	www.filmscoremonthly.com /articles/2004/13_May---Not_Even_Nominated_Part_Eleven.asp (3222 words)

	Filming Locations for Pacific Heights
		There's a decidedly Hitchcock feel to the movie, acknowledged by the casting of Tippi Hedren (Melanie Griffith's real-life mum) in a cameo role, and a sly director's cameo from Schlesinger himself.
		Pacific Heights is one of San Francisco's top-notch neighbourhoods, in the north of the city up towards the Marina district.
		Although the address is given as ë275 Pacific Streetí, the house seen in the movie isnít on Pacific Heights at all, but way across the other side of the city.
	www.movie-locations.com /filmarchive/p/pacificheights.html (264 words)

	Open Directory - Arts:Movies:Titles:P (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		An American film from 1990 documenting a drag culture of fl and hispanic gay men in Harlem during the mid-1980s.
		The film is based on the autobiography of Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody), a concert pianist who managed, against the odds, to survive the Nazi-initiated Warsaw ghetto.
		A series of three films in which a young family is haunted by ghosts, who terrorize them and wish to kidnap the youngest daughter.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Movies/Titles/P/desc.html (7123 words)

	Potrero Hill, San Francisco: Icer Air 2005
		Pacific Heights is set to host Icer Air 2005 on Aug 27th, which it's organizers laud as being the first of its kind urban big-air competition.
		Yesterday, Tony Kelly (President of the Potrero Boosters Neighborhood Association) and I were interviewed by Vicki Liviakis of KRON 4 for their 9p broadcast coverage of Icer Air 2005.
		The contest could be held in Pacific Heights or another hilly neighborhood, such as Potrero Hill.
	www.potrerohillsf.com /2005/08/icer-air-2005.html (1031 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It is much easier to make and sell a horror film about, say, a vampire, than it is to make one about rental relations though I somehow suspect there are more bad tenants in the world than there are vampires.
		Had this been a film about a monster whose powers were all granted him by the law, PACIFIC HEIGHTS could have been a terrific thriller that would have been making a powerful statement.
		It may be the first horror film about real estate law ever, but it is probably the second or third film with a psychotic villain this month.
	www.cc.gatech.edu /classes/AY2005/cs6300_fall/projects/project5/movies/08/0825 (517 words)

	Amazon.ca: Pacific Heights: Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		"Pacific Heights" is one of those thrillers, that makes buying the DVD worthwhile, as I know this one will not be collecting dust on the shelves.
		Drake (Modine) and Patty (Griffith) are the average, healthy, nonchalant couple who having just purchased their dream Victorian house in Pacific Heights, San Francisco; get themselves further into debt as they delightfully tend to both the interior and exterior of the residence to a surpassed point.
		Melanie Griffith is stupendous as the tormented wife and Matthew Modine as the everyday nonentity pushed to his individual limitations, is in an all-out performance in one of his more fashionable years when he also starred in the smash-hit war epic, 'Memphis Belle'.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0790741423 (1640 words)

	Potrero Hill, San Francisco: August 2005
		Chance the American Bulldog, and his lost friends admired the sweeping views of the city from Potrero Hill in Homeward Bound 2, Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron romanced each other in Sweet November, and ironically enough, Pacific Heights was filmed in Potrero Hill.
		Also, next Thursday August 18th, we'll be hosting the 'Best of San Francisco' event for the 48 Hour Film Project (http://www.48hourfilm.com/sf/) where they'll be screening a selection of the 26 films that were made for this year's contest by local talent.
		So come out and support local film, and I've been told there will be an after party where you can share a beer or two with some of the film makers and actors, so it's bound to be a great time.
	www.potrerohillsf.com /2005_08_01_archive.html (7665 words)

	channel4.com/film - En Face (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		What follows is a series of revelations about the nature of the old man's life and death, as first Clémence and then Michelle turn out not to be quite what they seem.
		The set-up is impressively taut and there are dark undertones to the film's erotic strain.
		Anglade and Boisson are both solid presences and the latter provides the film with its strange and faintly kinky atmosphere.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=103273 (265 words)

	Obituaries Today
		The film was an enormous critical and popular success and received the Golden bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival.
		In 1972 he was one of eight directors invited to contribute to the official Munich Olympics film, VISIONS OF EIGHT, in which he chose to feature the marathon race.
		Born in London in 1926, Schlesinger started out as a character actor for stage, film and television and also made documentaries such as 1961's Terminus, about a day in the life of a train station.
	www.obituariestoday.com /Obituaries/ObitShow.cfm?Obituary_ID=30383§ion=pin (669 words)

	Pacific Heights (1990)
		The horror films of the 1990s are horror films of the American upper middle classes.
		This remarkably fl film is an unusual financial horror film.
		The film is written with a real dark sense of irony, turning the red tape surrounding tenant protection into a nightmare minefield, culminating in the beautifully ironic nightmare situation where Matthew Modine eventually finds himself legally barred from entering his own house and unable to do anything when his assailant shoots him.
	www.moria.co.nz /horror/pacifichgts.htm (440 words)

	channel4.com/film - Pacific Heights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		John Schlesinger's Pacific Heights gave Michael Keaton a chance to show his capabilities as a villain rather than the good guy in a genuinely scary movie that owes less to 'Friends' and more to Psycho.
		The script from Daniel Pyne is based on his own personal experience of a Carter-like figure and Griffith and Modine are convincing as the initially rational couple who slowly realise they have to fight fire with fire.
		As one critic pointed out, this is probably the first film where the audience is on the side of the landlord but such is Keaton's power as the demented tenant, even if Modine had played a Rachmann-like figure, they'd still have rooted for him.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film_indepth.jsp?id=106859 (315 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		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.
		PACIFIC HEIGHTS blows its chance to be a stirring and compelling psychological thriller.
	www.cc.gatech.edu /computing/classes/AY2005/cs6300_fall/projects/project5/movies/52/5204 (325 words)

	StevenSoderbergh.net --> Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: ABOUT THE CAST AND FILMMAKERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Her next film was “E.T. the Extra Terrestrial,” where her portrayal of Gertie earned her a Youth in Film Award and a BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Award nomination for Most Outstanding Newcomer.
		Her next film, “Pretty Woman,” was the top-grossing film of 1990 and brought Roberts her second Academy Award nomination.
		Maggie made her feature film debut in 1992, alongside Jeremy Irons and Ethan Hawke in “Waterland.” This was followed by a memorable performance as “Raven”, the Satan-worshipping make-up artist in John Waters’ quirky Hollywood satire, “Cecil B. Demented,” which led her to a co-starring role in “Donnie Darko,” a fantasy-thriller about disturbed adolescence.
	www.stevensoderbergh.net /info/confessions-aboutthecastandfilmmakers.htm (6547 words)

	Movie Info for Pacific Heights on MSN Movies
		John Schlesinger directed this upscale horror film about a landlord with the ultimate problem tenant.
		Patty Palmer (Melanie Griffith) and Drake Goodman (Matthew Modine) are a middle class couple who lie on their financial statement in order to buy an old Victorian house in San Francisco, planning to renovate it and rent it out.
		Pacific Heights statistics, current listings, recent/pending sales, MLS access, automatic e-mail alerts for new Pacific Heights listings - San Francisco's Pacific Heights realty Web site.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=121458 (247 words)

	An Artisan Entertainment Release
		The tribute, which is given at the Sundance Film Festival, recognizes the original voice and vision of a film artist whose work reveals commitment to independent spirit and artistic merit.
		Produced by Jodie Foster’s Egg Productions, the film is an irreverent and slightly off-beat emotional story about a middle-class couple desperate for a child and a poor, trailer park couple who have four children and no room for their fifth.
		In this dramatic film, which is based on a true story; Dern portrays a dynamic woman out to clear the name of her husband who dies in an F16 plane crash.
	www.movieweb.com /movies/download.php?id=301&q=notes.htm (6162 words)

	USCCB - (Film and Broadcasting) - The "P" Listing of the Movie Reviews
		The following movies have been evaluated by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop's Office for Film and Broadcasting according to artistic merit and moral suitability.
		The movie review line is updated each Friday and includes information about six theater releases and a Family Video of the Week.
		L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling.
	www.usccb.org /movies/p/p.shtml (241 words)

	Utah / Latter-day Saint Film Editors / LDS Film Editors
		This page lists Latter-day Saint and Utah film editors and their film and television credits.
		Most of the films listed are mainstream productions, but films and videos made for the Latter-day Saint market, as well as Church-commissioned films and videos, are listed as well.
		For many smaller productions and short films the director served as his or her own film editor.
	www.ldsfilm.com /lds_edit.html (453 words)

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