1982's "Night Shift" by Ron Howard.
It stars Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton, Shelley Long, and
Richard Belzer.
Winkler plays a man who is so mild he has chamomile tea
running through his veins, and who works at the city morgue. He has an
over-controlling fiancée, is disrespected by his boss, and is disregarded by
his wacky new co-worker, Billy Blaze (Keaton). Winkler has a prostitute
neighbour who's just moved in (Long), whom he gets along with, but he's
generally stuck in his life. Luckily, Long's pimp is slam dunked to death, and
Winkler and Keaton conveniently take over as management for Long’s group of
prostitutes. Along the way, Winkler learns from Keaton's free wheeling ways and
starts to realize that he can have what he wants.
Ron Howard has made plenty of tear jerkers, fantasies, and populist dramas, but
this is his only cartoon. Firmly entrenched in the Reagan economics of the times,
this is one film I'm delighted was never regulated.
3.5/5
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