A mild-mannered morgue attendant is assigned to the night shift, and his new coworker, along with his prostitute neighbor, convince him of running a prostitution ring out of the morgue.A mild-mannered morgue attendant is assigned to the night shift, and his new coworker, along with his prostitute neighbor, convince him of running a prostitution ring out of the morgue.A mild-mannered morgue attendant is assigned to the night shift, and his new coworker, along with his prostitute neighbor, convince him of running a prostitution ring out of the morgue.
- Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination
Bobby Di Cicco
- Leonard Carbone
- (as Bobby DiCicco)
Corki Grazer
- Sylvia
- (as Corki Corman)
Jaid Barrymore
- Joyce
- (as Ildiko Jaid)
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- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
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- TriviaFirst major Hollywood studio picture directed by Ron Howard.
- Goofs(at around 52 mins) When Chuck is reading a computer screen showing his and Bill's investments for their prostitution "company", there are multiple spelling errors which aren't due to the screen's limitations. Chuck, being the fussy business type, would never let this happen. There's at least one typo on nine of the eleven lines displayed; they are: "CHUCK & BILLS INVESTMET SERVICE", "Inteest compouded monthl", "Paymnts at endof period", "Annual intrest rate", "Present vaue", "Future vale", "Monthly pament", "The interet rate is 1.46% per monh", and "And the tie period i 12 months".
- SoundtracksNight Shift
Music and Lyrics by Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, Marv Ross
Produced by John Boylan
Performed by Quarterflash
Featured review
Keaton steals this
Ron Howard has always been a consistantly talented director, never making a bad or even mediocre film. Even a film such as Ransom that opened to lukewarm reviews from both audience and critics is still better than your average thriller. He has a way of making lines and scenes memorable even when the script itself is only so-so. After following his career, I went back to one of his first, Night Shift which still has the magic I remember it did when I saw it way back when.
The story isn't the greatest and Shelly Long has never been an actress I've enjoyed watching but if you only want one reason to see Night Shift, Micheal Keaton is it. Here he creates what is probably one of the funniest characters I have ever seen in a movie. He is an idea man, constantly speaking them into his taperecorder and thus to his morgue co-worker Henry Winkler. Winkler "the fonz" is the total opposite of what he was in Happy Days, and therefor a perfect anchor for Keaton. If it was just Keaton, it wouldn't work, but Winkler is annoyed at Keaton, we laugh because of it.
If you do decide to watch this movie, be on the lookout for the single most hilarious scene: Keaton's analysation of the word "prostitute."
The story isn't the greatest and Shelly Long has never been an actress I've enjoyed watching but if you only want one reason to see Night Shift, Micheal Keaton is it. Here he creates what is probably one of the funniest characters I have ever seen in a movie. He is an idea man, constantly speaking them into his taperecorder and thus to his morgue co-worker Henry Winkler. Winkler "the fonz" is the total opposite of what he was in Happy Days, and therefor a perfect anchor for Keaton. If it was just Keaton, it wouldn't work, but Winkler is annoyed at Keaton, we laugh because of it.
If you do decide to watch this movie, be on the lookout for the single most hilarious scene: Keaton's analysation of the word "prostitute."
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Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Servicio de noche
- Filming locations
- Pino & Santo's Hairstyling, 68-07 Fresh Pond Road, Ridgewood, Queens, New York City, New York, USA(Chuck is getting his haircut while Bill sneaks up with a newspaper article.)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $8,100,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $21,095,638
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,539,633
- Aug 1, 1982
- Gross worldwide
- $21,095,638
- Runtime1 hour 46 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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