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Pacific Heights (film), the Glossary

Pacific Heights is a 1990 American psychological thriller film directed by John Schlesinger and written by Daniel Pyne.^[1]

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Films directed by John Schlesinger

Amir Mokri

Amir M. Mokri (امیر مکری.; born June 11, 1956) is an Iranian-American cinematographer.

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Assault

An assault is the illegal act of causing physical harm or unwanted physical contact to another person, or, in some legal definitions, the threat or attempt to do so.

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Barbara Tyson

Barbara Tyson (born October 1, 1964) is a Canadian actress known for appearing in hit TV series Neon Rider, Cold Squad, ER and The Twilight Zone.

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Beverly D'Angelo

Beverly Heather D'Angelo (born November 15, 1951) is an American actress who starred as Ellen Griswold in the National Lampoon's Vacation films (1983–2015).

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Blu-ray

Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format.

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Box Office Mojo

Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way.

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Bravo (American TV network)

Bravo is an American basic cable television network, launched on December 8, 1980.

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Carl Lumbly

Carl Winston Lumbly (born August 14, 1951) is an American actor.

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Century City

Century City is a 176-acre (71.2 ha) neighborhood and business district in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily nonprofit newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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CinemaScore

CinemaScore is a market research firm based in Las Vegas.

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Cockroaches (or roaches) are insects belonging to the order Blattodea (Blattaria). About 30 cockroach species out of 4,600 are associated with human habitats. Some species are well-known pests. The cockroaches are an ancient group, with their ancestors, known as "roachoids", originating during the Carboniferous period, some 320 million years ago.

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Credit score

A credit score is a numerical expression based on a level analysis of a person's credit files, to represent the creditworthiness of an individual.

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Criminal charge

A criminal charge is a formal accusation made by a governmental authority (usually a public prosecutor or the police) asserting that somebody has committed a crime.

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Crowbar

A crowbar, also called a wrecking bar, pry bar or prybar, pinch-bar, or occasionally a prise bar or prisebar, colloquially gooseneck, or pig bar, or in Britain and Australia a jemmy or jimmy (also called jemmy bar), is a lever consisting of a metal bar with a single curved end and flattened points, used to force two objects apart or gain mechanical advantage in lifting; often the curved end has a notch for removing nails.

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D. W. Moffett

Donald Warren Moffett (born October 26, 1954) is an American film, stage, and television actor.

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Dabbs Greer

Robert William "Dabbs" Greer (April 2, 1917 – April 28, 2007) was an American character actor in film and television for over 60 years.

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Dan Hedaya

Dan Hedaya (born July 24, 1940) is an American actor.

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Daniel Pyne

Daniel Pyne is an American writer and producer.

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Deseret News

The Deseret News is a multi-platform newspaper based in Salt Lake City, published by Deseret News Publishing Company, a subsidiary of Deseret Management Corporation, which is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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Desert Spring, California

Desert Spring is a former settlement in Kern County, California in the Fremont Valley, south of Red Rock Canyon State Park.

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Desson Thomson

Desson Patrick Thomson is a former speechwriter for the Obama administration and former film critic for The Washington Post.

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Disownment

Disownment occurs when a parent renounces or no longer accepts a child as a family member.

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Dorian Harewood

Dorian Harewood (born August 6, 1950) is an American actor, best known for playing Jesse Owens in The Jesse Owens Story (1984), Det.

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DVD

The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture.

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Eviction

Eviction is the removal of a tenant from rental property by the landlord.

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Florence Sundstrom

Florence E. "Flo" Sundstrom (February 9, 1918 – June 25, 2001) was an American actress who had an active career in theatre, television, and film.

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Goodfellas

Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American biographical crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, and produced by Irwin Winkler.

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Guy Boyd (actor)

Guy Boyd (born April 15, 1943) is an American actor, who has appeared in over 150 stage and screen productions since the late 1970's.

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Hal Landon Jr.

Hal Landon Jr. is an actor most notable for portraying Ted's Dad in the ''Bill & Ted'' franchise.

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Hans Zimmer

Hans Florian Zimmer (born 12 September 1957) is a German film score composer and music producer.

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Horror film

Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes.

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Identity theft

Identity theft, identity piracy or identity infringement occurs when someone uses another's personal identifying information, like their name, identifying number, or credit card number, without their permission, to commit fraud or other crimes.

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Janet Maslin

Janet R. Maslin (born August 12, 1949) is an American journalist, best known as a film and literary critic for The New York Times.

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Jerry Hardin

Jerry Hardin (born November 20, 1929) is an American actor.

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John Schlesinger

John Richard Schlesinger (16 February 1926 – 25 July 2003) was an English film and stage director, and actor.

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Laurie Metcalf

Laura Elizabeth Metcalf (born June 16, 1955) is an American actress and comedian.

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Lawsuit

A lawsuit is a proceeding by one or more parties (the plaintiff or claimant) against one or more parties (the defendant) in a civil court of law.

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List of films featuring home invasions

There is a body of films that feature home invasions. Pacific Heights (film) and List of films featuring home invasions are films about home invasion.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Luca Bercovici

Luca Bercovici (born February 22, 1957) is an American filmmaker, writer, producer and actor.

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Luis Oropeza

Luis Enrique Oropeza Sonoqui (born 27 October 1995) is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Liga de Expansión MX club Pumas Tabasco for Liga de Expansión MX club Pumas Tabasco, on loan from UNAM.

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Mako (actor)

was a Japanese-American actor, credited mononymously in almost all of his acting roles as simply Mako (マコ).

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Mark Warner (film editor)

Mark Warner (born February 24, 1954) is an American film editor who was nominated at the 1989 Academy Awards for Best Film Editing for the film Driving Miss Daisy.

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Matthew Modine

Matthew Avery Modine (born March 22, 1959) is an American actor.

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Melanie Griffith

Melanie Richards Griffith (born August 9, 1957) is an American actress.

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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books.

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Michael Keaton

Michael John Douglas (born September 5, 1951), known professionally as Michael Keaton, is an American actor.

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Miriam Margolyes

Miriam Margolyes (born 18 May 1941) is a British-Australian actress.

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Miscarriage

Miscarriage, also known in medical terms as a spontaneous abortion, is the death and expulsion of an embryo or fetus before it can survive independently.

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Morgan Creek Entertainment

Morgan Creek Entertainment, LLC is an American film production company, former sales agent and investor, that has released box-office hits including Young Guns, Dead Ringers, Major League, True Romance, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Crush, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and The Last of the Mohicans.

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Nicholas Pryor

Nicholas David Pryor (born Probst; January 28, 1935) is an American actor.

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Nick Rutherford

Nicholas Rutherford is an American actor, comedian, writer, and founding member of the sketch comedy group Good Neighbor.

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Nobu McCarthy

Nobu McCarthy (ノブ・マッカーシー, born Nobu Atsumi (渥美延); November 13, 1934 – April 6, 2002) was a Canadian actress.

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O-Lan Jones

O-Lan Jones (born May 23, 1950) is an American actress, composer, and theater producer, best known as Rose on Harts of the West (1993-1994).

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Owen Gleiberman

Owen Gleiberman (born February 24, 1959) is an American film critic who has been chief film critic for Variety magazine since May 2016, a title he shares with.

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Pacific Heights, San Francisco

Pacific Heights (often referred to as Pac Heights) is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, United States.

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Palm Springs, California

Palm Springs (Cahuilla: Séc-he) is a desert resort city in Riverside County, California, United States, within the Colorado Desert's Coachella Valley.

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Porsche 911 (classic)

The original Porsche 911 (pronounced nine eleven, Neunelfer) is a luxury sports car made by Porsche AG of Stuttgart, Germany.

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Potrero Hill

Potrero Hill is a residential neighborhood in San Francisco, California.

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Psychological thriller

Psychological thriller is a genre combining the thriller and psychological fiction genres.

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Public utility

A public utility company (usually just utility) is an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public service (often also providing a service using that infrastructure).

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Restraining order

A restraining order or protective order, is an order used by a court to protect a person in a situation often involving alleged domestic violence, child abuse, assault, harassment, stalking, or sexual assault.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author.

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RogerEbert.com

RogerEbert.com is an American film review website that archives reviews written by film critic Roger Ebert for the Chicago Sun-Times and also shares other critics' reviews and essays.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Scott Rudin

Scott Rudin (born July 14, 1958) is an American film, television and theatre producer.

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Sheila McCarthy

Sheila McCarthy (born January 1, 1956) is a Canadian actress and singer.

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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Inc. (abbreviated as SPHE) is the home entertainment distribution division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony.

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Sunbelt Publications

Sunbelt Publications is an American publication company that was incorporated in 1988.

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The 100 Scariest Movie Moments

The 100 Scariest Movie Moments is an American television documentary miniseries that aired in late October 2004, on Bravo.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Tippi Hedren

Nathalie Kay "Tippi" Hedren (born January 19, 1930) is an American retired actress.

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Tracey Walter

Tracey Walter (born November 25, 1942) is an American retired character actor.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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VHS

The VHS (Video Home System) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes, introduced in 1976 by the Victor Company of Japan (JVC).

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Waiver

A waiver is the voluntary relinquishment or surrender of some known right or privilege.

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Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment

Warner Bros.

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William Paterson (actor)

William Paterson (July 7, 1919 – September 3, 2003) was an actor in American regional theater who also appeared on television and in films.

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Wire transfer

Wire transfer, bank transfer, or credit transfer, is a method of electronic funds transfer from one person or entity to another.

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Yuppie

Yuppie, short for "young urban professional" or "young upwardly-mobile professional", is a term coined in the early 1980s for a young professional person working in a city.

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20th Century Home Entertainment

20th Century Home Entertainment (previously known as 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and also known as 20th Century Studios Home Entertainment) is a home video brand label of Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment that distributes films produced by 20th Century Studios, Searchlight Pictures, and 20th Century Animation, and television series by 20th Television, Searchlight Television, 20th Television Animation, and FX Productions in home entertainment formats.

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20th Century Studios

20th Century Studios, Inc. is an American film studio owned by the Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, in turn a division of The Walt Disney Company.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Heights_(film)

Also known as Pacific Heights (1990 film), Pacific Heights (movie).

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See also

Films directed by John Schlesinger

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