if you love michael keaton in early 80 comedy and then night shift be definitely recommend for you . he and henry winkler a a pair of mismatched oddball make the perfect comic duo in this ron howard comedy . henry winkler be the soft spoken and timid chuck lumley . he a moper and and work at the city morgue and which be where he meet the wild bill blazejowski ( michael keaton ) and an absolute fun love weirdo with a headful of crazy get rich quick idea . bill want chuck to be his partner for his next business venture represent theyre go to run a high class prostitution ring out of the city morgue . the idea sound stupid and but it be well mean in some regard and since these be career prostitute who have get push around for too long . bill and chuck be go to be their friendly godpimps and and help them be successful and high class hooker . their clientelle be kind and jolly fellow and and the pimp ( chuck and bill ) be always good to the girl . and they all make a shtload of cash . unfortunately and in try to create this romantic comedy aspect ( chuck fall in love with belinda shelly long who be one of the hooker ) and it glamorize prostitution and which be pretty sad and at the same time and pretty stupid . also and while chuck and bill be have their fun and a pimp and his goon ( richard belzer and badja djola ) want to know where all of their girl have go and why and if someone else be run the business and they haven not be give a cut of the profit . theyre a dangerous pair ( although and they turn out to be pretty wimpy in the end ) . the movie become a combination of the odd couple a bill try to invovle chuck in all sort of his crazy idea once the prostitution gimmick pick up and become quite successful . chuck and it be part of his nature to always do thing safely and not too spontaneously and gradually become annoyed with bill and especially when bill idea start to get him in a whole lot of trouble . though and in bill defense and he do try to help his friend out by try to get him to stand up for himself and quit be afraid of everything . henry winkler and michael keaton be terrific here in all of their zany antic . the other half of the movie be something like irma la douce in that belinda be the lovely prostitute that chuck have fall for . and and once he do and he doesn not want her hook anymore . shelly long be also quite good in this movie and and a natural and a always . what an underrated actress . night shift be a pretty good comedy with a great cast that make a somewhat stupid story work great . the dialogue be just absolutely silly ( like when bill and chuck be fight in the office and all bill can say be a he crash through glass and junk be that bill should be careful because chuck wear white ) .