
Happy, Texas(1999)
Two escaped convicts roll into the village of Happy, Texas, where they're mistaken for a gay couple who work as beauty pageant consultants. They go along with it to duck the police, but the local sheriff has a secret of his own.


“Benson is a cop who wants to clean up the streets...his partner just wants to redecorate.”
After a series of murders in Los Angeles's gay community, heterosexual police officer Sgt. Benson is assigned to go undercover as half of a gay couple with Officer Kerwin, a Records Clerk

Ryan O'Neal
Sgt. Benson

John Hurt
Kerwin

Kenneth McMillan
Chief Wilkins

Robyn Douglass
Jill

Jay Robinson
Halderstam

Denise Galik
Clara

Joseph R. Sicari
Walter

Michael McGuire
Monroe

Rick Jason
Douglas

James Remar
Edward K. Petersen
Partners is a comedy, crime film released in 1982 exploring themes of pretending to be gay, gay theme. Directed by James Burrows, it stars Ryan O'Neal, John Hurt, Kenneth McMillan. After a series of murders in Los Angeles's gay community, heterosexual police officer Sgt. Benson is assigned to go undercover as half of a gay couple with Officer Kerwin, a Records Clerk
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