Ho! Ho! Ho!

Jonathan Morgan teamed memorably with director Jim Enright (and colleague Jace Rocker) for a series of hit comedies in Wicked Pictures' early years, like "Haunted Nights", "Western Nights" and "Arabian Nights".

This Christmastime themed comedy was written by Morgan and plays well, with addle-brained me not recognizing the connection to that early Henry Winkler hit "Night Shift" until reading it in IMDb, even though Morgan does something of a Fonzie impression in the second lead role.

Star is Steve Hatcher, using the alternate screen moniker Jake Williams, as a hospital flunky (I thought he was a doctor but he seems more like an orderly) reassigned by his boss Calzone (makeup man Alan Bosshardt pressed into acting) to the night shift instead of getting a promotion. He has to work with trainee Johnny (Morgan) who devises a scheme to make quick money by defrauding the insurance company in charging sex by hookers for the patients as medical procedures.

The hookers are an interesting bunch led by blonde Melanie Moore, who has already befriended Hatcher as his neighhor, though Janet Jacme gets top billing. The sex is hot (particularly when the one and only Latina bombshell of the '90s Heather Lee services Morgan) and a happy ending is contrived in which the 4 ladies are now in business for themselves, miraculously freed of subservience to abusive pimps.

Finale orgy has an off-hand comment that the fourth whore (played by Isis Nile) has gone back to her hometown, but her absence from the group sex is a bit glaring, especially since she and Moore are played up as the stars in the show's packaging.

It's lightweight entertainment but one more example of Morgan's way with comedy that led to his ongoing directorial career for Wicked Pictures.