The Shelley Longcast: Night Shift
Added 2021-03-06 00:59:01 +0000 UTCIf you just hopped into a movie theater one weekend in 1982 and saw Night Shift, you might not expect that two of the leads, Shelley Long and Michael Keaton, would not only go on to become households names but would also outshine the guy who’s top-billed: Henry Winkler, playing a very un-Fonzarelli-like role. You might not also expect that director Ron Howard would go one to become one of the biggest directors in Hollywood. Yet that’s the case with Night Shift, a moderate hit released in the same year as E.T., which made even big hits seem tiny. It’s also a sex comedy about prostitutes and morgues that teaches us relatively little about either industry, and it’s also the movie for which Burt Bacharach composed “That’s What Friends Are For.” Weird, right?
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Raiders & Arthur were released in '81
Michael Jobin Damp
2024-01-24 05:48:12 +0000 UTCtruly LOVE yer show - BUT this is a PHENOMENOL movie - watch it again - it's absurd and silly and hopeful - & pure 80's - fun music - buddies succeeding only with each other - a loser winning - the makeover scene - the kindness toward sex workers - and in the 80's - C'MON GUYS PUHLEEEEEZE - LOVE BROKERSSS !!
Michael Jobin Damp
2024-01-24 05:27:37 +0000 UTCI saw this movie a lot as a kid for some reason (heavy HBO rotation? ) and I rewatched it a month ago and while I agree with all the problematic things, I gotta say I loved it!
Brianna Bertoglio
2021-03-14 00:47:33 +0000 UTCPlease do Losin’ It! It was one of those Comedy Central movies I watched all the time when I was young.
Ryan Cores
2021-03-10 03:11:43 +0000 UTC
