Pacific Heights (Schlesinger, 1990): Nickel Cinema, 6pm
This film is creening as part of 'The Consummate Professional: John Schlesinger at 100' season. You can find all the details here.
Time Out review:
Carter Hayes (Michael Keaton) is not the ideal tenant: he trifles with
razor blades, cultivates cockroaches, and doesn't pay the rent. It's a
sign of the times when the landlord gets all our sympathy, but that's
the general idea. Live-in lovers Drake and Patty (Matthew Modine and Melanie Griffith)
buy a sprawling Victorian house in San Francisco. To pay for
renovations, they rent out apartments to a quiet Japanese couple and to
the psychopathic Hayes, who proceeds to strip the fittings and terrorise
everyone in the house. But the law is firmly on his side. 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.
Collette Maude
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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