Partners - BLU-RAY

Using puppetry techniques inspired by Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation sagas, InchSouth ParkInch creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone skewer U.S. politics and celebrity activism with this hilarious and controversial satire. Team America, a high-tech international law enforcement agency, recruits a renowned Broadway actor to help them mount a series of ill-conceived anti-terrorist campaigns. Parker and Stone provide voices along with Kristen Miller, Daran Norris. 98 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English. Two-disc set.

Straight cop Benson (Ryan O'Neal, Love Story) and gay officer Kerwin (John Hurt, Alien) make an odd couple when teamed to solve a series of murders in the comedy-thriller Partners directed by James Burrows (TV's Cheers). Thrown together by their boss, Chief Wilkins (Kenneth McMillan, Ragtime), ladies man Benson and the closeted records clerk Kerwin go undercover as a gay couple to hunt down the person responsible for a series of murders in L.A.'s gay community. Initial discomfort melts away as Benson relaxes into his role, while Kerwin finds his bliss in domesticity. But bliss will be short-lived when Benson's roving eye makes him a target for the killer and only Kerwin's clear-eyed deductions may prevent his partner from becoming the next victim. Partners, directed by James Burrows (TV's Cheers) from a screenplay by Francis Veber (La Cage aux Folles) and featuring a musical score by Georges Delerue (Beaches), co-stars Robyn Douglass (Breaking Away), Darrell Larson (Stepmom), James Remar (Django Unchained) and Jay Robinson (Bram Stoker's Dracula).

Two life-long best friends find their friendship put to the test when one of the women becomes involved with a handsome new comer. No longer are their homes Inchopen housesInch to each other as one tries to adapt to life without her best friend always available. A female bro-mance.