Night Shift (1982)
7/10
A bit silly but it's got a heart
13 July 2023
Enjoyable little comedy which sees one star at the beginning of their career and the other two at the peak of theirs, strange it's the newcomer who would go on to be the more successful. Henry Winkler plays Chuck Lumley a downtrodden morgue worker who finds out that he's being moved to the night shift, much to the chagrin of his girlfriend Charlotte (Gina Hecht). Worse still he has a new co-worker, Bill (Michael Keaton), slightly annoying and a bit of a dreamer. He has a plan to make money by hiring prostitutes to work from the morgue, one of these prostitutes is Belinda (Shelley Long). At first Chuck's against the idea, but having fallen for Belinda he caves into Bill's idea.

There's some really good scenes in this movie, especially the ones with Winkler and Long, but it's Keaton, all energy, who would later become a major star. This film, though largely forgotten, is well worth a watch.
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