Pacino's house in Heat?

July 4, 2007 7:49 PM

Who designed the building Al Pacino’s wife lived in in the movie Heat?

Hi, this question is driving me crazy and I need to know as it relates to a project I am working on. At one point Pacino’s character even laments about his life and the house:

Pacino: I'm angry. I'm very angry, Ralph. You know, you can ball my wife if she wants you to. You can lounge around here on her sofa, in her ex-husband's dead-tech, post-modernistic bullshit house if you want to. But you do not get to watch my fucking television set!

I have a hunch that the house is the sixth street house in Santa Monica by Thom Mayne / Morphosis, but I am not sure. Does anybody out there know? Searches of IMDB and seeingthestars.com haven’t been of any use as they’ve only identified the city locations.

I have posted a capture here - although it is only an interior the detailing of the staircase is quite unique.

Help!

posted by avocet to Media & Arts (5 answers total)

I'm guessing that house is in the hills, not Santa Monica,butI'mprobablhywrong andmy space bar has topped working.
posted by unSane at 8:14 PM on July 4, 2007 [1 favorite]

No mention in The Worldwide Guide To Movie Locations either.
posted by forallmankind at 9:15 PM on July 4, 2007

I think you could right though.
posted by forallmankind at 9:26 PM on July 4, 2007

Why not email Morphosis and ask? Their website is morphosis.net.
posted by dobbs at 9:46 PM on July 4, 2007

I'm pretty certain this is the house in Santa Monica that Thom Mayne (Morphosis) designed for himself - technically a remodel but nearly everything is new.
posted by tecton at 8:53 PM on July 5, 2007