Night Shift

1982 "Ever since two enterprising young men turned the City Morgue into a swinging business, people have been dying to get in."
6.5| 1h46m| R| en| More Info
Released: 30 July 1982 Released
Producted By: Warner Bros. Pictures
Country: United States of America
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A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the "one great idea" for success. His life takes a bizarre turn when a prostitute neighbor complains about the loss of her pimp. His partner, upon hearing the situation, suggests that they fill that opening themselves using the morgue at night.

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SnoopyStyle Chuck Lumley (Henry Winkler) is a pushover. His boss takes away his day job at the NYC morgue and relegates him to the night shift. He eats the food even when the restaurant gets it wrong. A dog keeps chasing him to his apartment. His neurotic fiancée Charlotte Koogle is obsessed with losing weight for their upcoming nuptials. The loud-mouth night shift driver Bill Blazejowski (Michael Keaton) is always scheming to make a few extra bucks including turning the hearse into a limo. His neighbor Belinda Keaton (Shelley Long) is a hooker. Her pimp gets killed and all her friends are left on their own. She befriends Chuck and soon, they're running a prostitution ring out of the city morgue.This early Ron Howard has a little edge. It's irreverent fun. Keaton is pre Mr. Mom. Winkler is against type with the Fonz. Long is new. Everybody's great. It's the first Howard movie that shows his directing potential.
lbmoniz I'm a former EMT and wanted to gag at the utter lack of emergency medical knowledge displayed by the writers/directors in the premier episode. In one scene the doctor pulls a wooden stake out of a patient's abdomen at the scene of a wreck, a procedure likely to rip apart major arteries and result in almost instantaneous death. Second,cutting a car support post with a power saw, rather than using a jaws-of-life attachment. No rescue team with training and equipment would resort to using the saw in those circumstances. Thousands of sparks at an auto accident are an open invitation to a gasoline explosion, not to mention injuring rescue workers with flying hot metal bits. Third, the "improvised" short back-board has been available for decades. In addition, the "expert holding the youngster with the spinal injury would have been unable to control the head without under-chin support.All of these points are common knowledge with EMTs, Paramedics and Rescue Squads. While your stuff may make for good viewing by the uninitiated, to those of us who've done the work, the cast looks like a bunch of bumbling idiots. Is this supposed to be drama or the Keystone Cops meet Squad 51 from the old Emergency! show?? I give the show three episodes before it's canceled. Really BAD.
sergey_martyn I just cannot believe that such epic fail reached the theaters. This movie absolutely lacks script, plot, humour, any intelligible ideas and anyhting else to call it a movie. Never watch it! DVD was trashed immediately after yawning aloud thtough this disappointment and stupidity - thank god it cost just $0.10 in a lot of DVDs I recently bought. Whomever approved this script, paid the filming and the director are absolutely insane braindeads who should be kicked out of the movie business immediately. Still can't believe this stupid reel of film exists. Lousy and pale attempt to reinact the Animal House madness married with a dull, pointless and illogical script.
Brian T. Whitlock (GOWBTW) This movie's got plenty of star power there. Henry Winkler of "Happy Days"; Shelly Long of "Cheers" fame; Michael Keaton way before "Beetlejuice" and "Batman". He was a total riot! Winkler plays Chuck Lumley, a lowly morgue attendant who used to work for Wall Street got stuck doing the night shift with a very wild and outlandish partner named Bill "Blaze" Blazejowski(Keaton) who happens to be businessman wannabe. Lumley has a next door neighbor named Belinda Keaton(Long) who happens to be a prostitute. She and several others needed a way to make the money, while avoid two pimps who taking more than their shares of the profits. The two morgue attendants decide to turn the city morgue into the ultimate brothel. They made the prostitutes dreams come true with items they can only imagine having. Lumley and Blaze call themselves, "Love Brokers", and it worked. The competition starts to heat up, and they get the surprise they'll never forget. Especially when the other's gun goes off prematurely on his foot! Though Lumley had a low key, but when Belinda came into his life, he became stronger and puts his foot down on those who pushed his aside. This movie delivers a sense of bolster, and self-assurance. It's a lot of fun, I enjoyed it very well. 3 out of 5 stars!