Night Shift

Some spoilers: A pimp is killed by getting tied to a chair and thrown out of an apartment window several stories up. These same two men who kill the pimp are shown beating up another man in an alley, tie a man to a reclining chair with a tube in his mouth, and are on the verge of turning on a spigot connected to the tube and forcing him to fill up with water but are stopped when they get into a gunfight with the police. Prostitute shown bloodied and beaten. Joke made about sexually assaulting Girl Scouts. Believing a mugger has entered their apartment, a group of kids attack one of the lead characters, hitting him repeatedly on the head.

Movie centered on two men who take advantage of working overnight in a morgue to become pimps. Naked breasts. Bite marks on exposed male buttocks. Ugly sides of prostitution mostly glossed over. Male lead character stares at the rear end of the female lead character as she leans forward wearing only panties. Consensual sex; no nudity, but sex talk. During a raucous party in the morgue, a couple have sex in a cadaver storage drawer. Engaged couple unable to have sex -- as man attempts to initiate foreplay, the woman is too obsessed with her weight to be aroused. While making an argument in favor of becoming pimps, one lead character tells the other that they would be allowed to have sex with the prostitutes. In Times Square, marquee advertises a movie called A Midsummer Night's Wet Dream. Lead character stuffs crotch with toilet paper. A prostitute reads a poem that references "humping." Lead character talks of how his ex-girlfriend "went lesbo."

Frequent profanity. "S--t," "a--hole," "t-t," "bastard," "bitch," "piss-head," "jagoff," "numbnuts." Middle finger gesture. Euphemisms for sex.

Binge-drinking -- college students throw a party in the morgue with lots of beer and drunken revelry. Cigarette smoking. Cocaine called "nose candy," and cocaine abusers called "tooters" and "tootheads." A woman is referred to as "Miss Heroin 1982."

Parents need to know that Night Shift is a 1982 comedy in which Henry Winkler and Michael Keaton play two men working the overnight hours of a morgue who decide to become pimps. While not necessarily glamorized, prostitution isn't really shown in a negative light either; aside from an instance of physical violence, the threat of jail time and some complaints about money, the life of "the world's oldest profession" comes off as both a lark and a way in which Winkler's character learns to stop being a pushover. As an inducement to becoming pimps, Keaton's character excitedly talks of how, if they become pimps, they can have sex with the prostitutes whenever they want. Keaton's character also makes a joke about sexually assaulting Girl Scouts. There is some nudity: female breasts, bite marks on a man's buttocks. Winkler's character is shown ogling his neighbor while she bends over wearing nothing below the waist except a pair of panties. While in jail, Winkler's character is horrified and humor is mined out of an effeminate inmate making eyes and kissy faces at him. A man is tied to a chair and thrown to his death out an apartment window, and there's a gunfight between two thugs and the police. A lead character is nearly killed by being tied up in a chair with a hose in his mouth on the verge of being forced to take in gallons of water. During a party scene in the morgue, college students binge-drink beer, and a couple are caught having sex inside one of the cadaver drawers. The movie also has jokes referencing cocaine and heroin; sex talk, not only involving the prostitutes, but also between consenting couples during foreplay and after sex; cigarette smoking; and lots of profanity ("s--t," "a--hole," "t-t") and euphemisms for sex acts.

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