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Night Shift

1982

Ron Howard

Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton, Shelley Long, Shannen Doherty ...

5.4

638

Comedy 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 neighbour 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 as their brothel. Against his better judgement, he gets ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Gary Arnold The Washington Post	"The largest shares of credit for this pleasant surprise evidently belong to director Ron Howard--whose assurance behind the camera may come as a revelation"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"This is a halfway funny movie, one that's got loads of good gags in its first half and nothing but trouble in its second."	NEU
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"Though the plotline hardly sounds like a family film, this is probably the most sanitized treatment of pimps and prostitution audiences will ever see."	POS
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"Ron Howard's direction is carefully balanced, and he treats his characters with humanity and respect. Winkler turns in the best performance of his career, and Keaton is wonderful."	POS
Canada	The Globe and Mail	"A mish-mash that is further hindered by Howard's trite ideas of directing. Plot and camera moves are entirely predictable"	NEU
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"This isn't as snappily directed or as caustically conceived as the subsequent Risky Business, which has a similar theme, but it's arguably just as sexy and almost as funny."	POS

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