Pacific Heights

Released: 1990
Drama, Mystery
Director: John Schlesinger
Starring: Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, Michael Keaton
Running Time: 102 minutes
Rated: R

The breakdown:  A new tenant makes life absolute hell for the landlords.


This was a good movie overall.  Michael Keaton gave the strongest performance of the three stars and made a very good bad guy.
Modine and Griffith are dating and decide to move into a fixer upper in an exclusive neighborhood in San Fransisco.  To help pay for the cost of the mortgage they decide to rent out two of the rooms.  One room is taken by an older Asian couple and the other is up for grabs.  After the first applicants credit check is lost and never received, they tentatively come to an agreement with Keaton.  But he's pushy and does not do a credit check and kind of just moves in promising to pay soon.  After the money is not received the landlords want him to leave, but he refuses.  He becomes very difficult, and eventually dangerous to deal with.
You should see the movie to get the scope of what he does to make the landlords miserable, but it's pretty severe.

Good story, and entertaining enough for me to recommend it.
3 out of 5 mostly for Keaton and an unusual storyline.