Partners is funny, meaningful and progressive for its day 1982 (its the anti-Cruising), The plot of this high concept comedy (from wiki) %u201CAfter a series of murders in the Los Angeles gay community, heterosexual police sergeant Benson (Ryan O%u2019Neal) is assigned to the case. He is ordered to go undercover as half of a gay couple. The other half of the couple is Officer Kerwin (John Hurt), a records clerk who everyone in the department knows is gay although he thinks he%u2019s closeted.%u2

I don't give a rat's arse about how mousey John Hurt's supposed to be in this, he's a cop ffs. SURELY he had to do some firearms training to get INTO the force in the first place... And WHY ON EARTH does Ryan O'Neal's character suddenly break out of character to sleep with an obvious suspect??? So lame, yet so camp for all the wrong reasons.