Night Shift
Ever since two enterprising young men turned the City Morgue into a swinging business, people have been dying to get in.
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.
- Director
- Ron Howard
- Worldwide
- $21M
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Cast
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Story overview
What It's About
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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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Box Office & Release
Night Shift returned 2.6× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $8M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $21M
- Release date
- Jul 30, 1982
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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