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Pacific Heights
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Pacific Heights (1990) is a thriller film directed by John Schlesinger, starring Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, and Michael Keaton.Patty Palmer (Griffith) and Drake Goodman (Modine) have just bought a large $750,000+ house in the San Francisco neighborhood of Pacific Heights, where they renovate it and plan to rent the two apartments on the ground floor in order to help cover the mortgage. When they meet Carter Hayes (Keaton), everything seems perfect, as he appears to be the ideal tenant... until they discover that he is a shady con artist who refuses to pay either the rent or the security deposit and changes the locks on all the doors. In short order, he inflicts a campaign of terror on his hapless landlords through scare tactics, verbal baiting and turning his own apartment into a dark cockroach-infested den. It is all part of Hayes' elaborate scheme to use the California tenant laws against the Goodmans to obtain the property cheaply.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Ultimately, though, he goes too far, inspiring Patty to seek revenge... | |
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Floorboard Failure: Damaged, rather than totally collapsed, floorboards play a key role in the climax. Carter Hayes is impaled on gas pipes protruding from the floor because he himself had stolen the appliance they were attached to. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Ax-Crazy: Hayes eventually becomes this after being at the receving end of having his own life ruined. | |
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Depraved Bisexual: In the original script, Hayes was supposed to be bisexual and sexually menace both Patty and Drake. In the final version, it is merely suggested. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: Carter Hayes is impaled on gas pipes protruding from the floor—protruding because he himself stole the appliance they were attached to. Also, his own tactics are used against him by Patty; his habit of assuming the identity of his last victim is what allows Patty to send him into financial meltdown and get him arrested. | |
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Cat Scare | |
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Cat Scare: Involving a cat and a bird. | |
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Films of 1990–1994 / int_63874f5d | |
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Psychological Thriller / int_63874f5d | |
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Floorboard Failure / int_63874f5d |
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