Night Shift (1982)
Comedy • 1h 46m
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton, Shelley Long, Gina Hecht, Pat Corley, Bobby Di Cicco, Nita Talbot, Basil Hoffman, Tim Rossovich, Clint Howard, Joe Spinell, Cheryl Carter, Becky Gonzalez, Corki Grazer, Jaid Barrymore, Ava Lazar, Robbin Young, Ola Ray, Cassandra Gava, Mimi Lieber, Ashley Cox, Elizabeth Carder, Dawn Dunlap, Jeanne Mori, K.C. Winkler, Catherine Gilmour, Monique Gabrielle, Jim Staahl, Barbara Ann Grimes, Richard Belzer, Badja Djola, Marc Flanagan, Beau Billingslea, Kevin Rodney Sullivan, Grand L. Bush, Julius LeFlore, Floyd Levine, Reid Cruickshanks, Charles Fleischer, Vincent Schiavelli, Jack Perkins, James Ritz, John Boyle, Brett Baxter Clark, Paul S. Kaufman, Joy Michael Vogelbacher, Hugo Napier, Tom Candela, Eddie Gattalin, Horace Long, Angelo Vignari, Kevin Costner, Russell Forte, Jim Greenleaf, Jason FitzGerald, Jeremy Lawrence, Shannen Doherty, Cheryl Howard, Ron Howard, Michael Pataki
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About the film
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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Director: Ron Howard
Theatrical: Universal 4K Blu-ray
IMAX Cut: 2005 DVD
Theatrical: Cinema DTS
Director: Ron Howard
2026 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook
2026 Sony 4K Blu-ray Steelbook added Dolby Vision
Director: Ron Howard
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Universal 4K Blu-ray - caps. Looks stunning against the horribly neutralized old master. Very glad Deakins supervised the new grade and had Universal restore his color filters.
Universal Blu-ray (included in the 4K edition) has the original 5.1 mix not on the 4K disc
The original 5.1 surround mix from the 2011 USA BD was included alongside the new Atmos upmix. The compatibility track is a downmix of the Atmos. The Atmos is overall lightly remixed with noticeably more high frequencies rolled-off relative to the old 5.1. I think the 5.1 sounds better. The 5.1 mix from the USA BD was used as it sounds essentially the same as the EUR BD (with some minor loudness differences) while not featuring the dither noise and low frequency noise that the EUR has. Commentaries between the USA UHD and USA BD are the same, with both featuring Dolby Surround metadata
Audio comparison: 5.1 surround
Director: Ron Howard
Theatrical Cut: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray
Extended Cut: The 30th Anniversary Extended Cut on fanedit.org
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Theatrical Cut: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray
Extended Cut: The 30th Anniversary Extended Cut on fanedit.org has the additional TV footage and is also uncut.
The TV version is extended but is censored. The Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray is restored from an interpositive, no release so far is confirmed to be from the Original Camera Negative.
Director: Ron Howard
4K restoration of the original 3D left eye and right eye camera negatives
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
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Director: Mike Cheslik
Director: Hal Ashby
Director: Tom Holland
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sounds better than the Sony 4K Blu-ray , https://slow.pics/c/pJfES0fl
Twilight Time has an isolated score
Director: Elaine May
Cinématographe 4K Blu-ray > MoC > Olive Films. From nicolas:
The master is good but it’s not that big an upgrade from the Olive Films disc and Vinegar Syndrome’ encode has some blocky highlights. A shame that they didn’t hire David Mackenzie here.
Cinématographe has unnecessary noise gating not present on the previous releases.
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