Movie of the Year: 1982 – Night Shift

By Greg | July 21, 2022

Movie of the Year: 1982

Night Shift

Should Night Shift have been included in our 1982 bracket?

Night Shift imagines a New York where morgues are always empty, and thus their employees are free to run other “small businesses” out of them. We’ve got Henry Winkler; we’ve got Shelley Long; we’ve got Michael Keaton, and we’ve got them in various combinations across various scenes. The boys couldn’t quite come to an agreement on this movie as a whole, but one thing we were absolutely sure of is that the 3 leads in this movie do a great job of bringing humor, maybe even unexpected humor, to the 1982 season. 

But will it be Movie of the Year? No, it obviously won’t be movie of the year because it didn’t make the bracket, and even if it had made the bracket, we’re not totally sure it would have advanced. However, we’re better for having seen it, and the season’s better for our having discussed it. For instance, we now know the New York morgues are a pretty dead place to be.

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