Night Shift (1982)

Memorable, crazy movie

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Did you people see the same film I saw?

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Winkler and Keaton are buddies working the night shift at the city morgue when they realize they could increase their earnings by operating a call girl business on the side. The usual shenanigans ensue. This was Keaton's breakout role that sent him on a solid ten year run as an A star, it also modestly brought Fonzie to the big screen. Shelley Long is at her Shelley Longest in the role of sweet hooker, later she sort of got stuck in vacant pleasantries but in this one she has a little depth to her character and carries the lead female role well. I don't know if this helped inspire Risky Business but the plot lines have more than a few similarities. Worth a watch.

There are a few dull passages here and there, but just as you think the well is starting to run dry and the theme is about to peter out, the screenwriter and the players and the director change the scene and get their act together for another agreeable round of laughs. Yes, the movie is brightly photographed and very ingratiatingly played (particularly by Mr. Winkler) with a clever screenplay that combines a novel plot with a great deal of witty and comical situations. It's also very smoothly directed in a not too overt TV style, making excellent use of real locations, and it has a faultless support cast. But the film is Mr. Winkler's and he makes the most of his opportunities. Mostly the film is quite attractive to look at, compositions are nicely framed for the wide screen and the director even knows what a reverse angle is! A good music score, plus top production values and skillful film editing also help raise this movie's entertainment appeal.

Henry Winkler plays meek, and put-upon morgue attendant Chuck Lumley, who is engaged to a controlling woman he doesn't love, and has also been passed over for a promotion, and forced to work the night shift, when he is paired with wacky new employee Bill(played by Michael Keaton, in a star-making performance) Bill is as extroverted as Chuck is introverted, but somehow(despite a heated argument) they become unlikely friends, then business partners. You see, chuck's neighbor Belinda Keaton(Shelly Long) is a prostitute who hates her pimp, so she organizes her colleagues(Bill's idea) to operate out of the morgue(!) Things go well until Belinda's old pimp decides he wants in on the action...Unlikely premise for a comedy works surprisingly well, thanks to appealing performances and good direction by Ron Howard. Story is far fetched of course, but this comedy succeeds in spite of that.

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