Partners (1982 film)

Partners is a 1982 gaythemed buddy comedy, starring Ryan ONeal and John Hurt as a mismatched pair of cops.

Benson grows close to Jill Robyn Douglass, the photographer of his shoot, and plans a weekend getaway with her. Kerwin suspects her of the murders, but his superiors put it down to jealousy. Kerwin uncovers evidence implicating Jill but, when the police move to apprehend her, they discover her corpse. Her death unknown to Benson, he arrives for his rendezvous with Jill and Kerwin races to his aid. Jills killer, a closeted man whom Jill and one of the victims were blackmailing, admits to Benson that he killed Jill and two of the men but insists that Jill killed her partner in crime. Realizing that Kerwin is outside, the killer shoots at Kerwin who returns fire. Kerwin is wounded, but the other man is killed.The film derives much of its alleged humor from Bensons discomfort with homosexuality and his stereotyping gay behaviour. The film shows the evolution of Bensons attitudes toward Kerwin, in particular, and gay people, in general. ........

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